The switchboard operator’s job was automated out of existence. The work it became, the invisible systems that now connect every call, is worth more than the job ever was. AI is about to do the same thing to the app.The people buying AI are blunt about the...
Two readers, one page. The agent never sees the surface you designed; it reads the structure underneath. AI assisted.The semantic structure screen readers have used for decades now also decide whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity can read...
Why I’m reconsidering a principle I’ve believed for years.I’ve always believed that imperfect research is better than no research at all.Synthetic users have made me reconsider that. When synthetic responses are treated like findings from real users, they...
A judgment call, wired in like any other function.Typed answers at keystroke speed let the interface act, suggest, or ask. How UX designers can put a decision model to work today in their applications.On September 15, 2026, a San Francisco lab called...
On working with agents, producing more than ever, and losing the ability to see anything whole.Maestro, we have six more deliveries ready — Created by the author with AII'm writing this on a Sunday morning. While I write, several agents are working in other...
Michelangelo painted a Last Judgment where every soul is finally answered for. We built the first creation that arrives with no maker, no soul, no ending, and no one on the throne.The oldest book didn’t predict AI, but the comforts it promises, a maker who...
The operator dwarfed by the machine that generates his future for him. The film’s real subject was never the screen.Steven Spielberg’s Precogs Are The Sharpest Portrait Of Generative AI Anyone Drew Before It Arrived — Fluent, Confident, Acting On Their Own,...