AI Agent setup UI Guess how long this took to design?

Companies laying off due to AI Companies hiring back due to rising AI costs

Have designed so many agent interfaces after this, it’s crazy!

People not figuring out how to use Claude are going to feel this the most. We had a lot of sites on Webflow. Already moved 2 to custom builds. We already pay for Railway, no reason to pay Webflow an extra $30/m. Simple math. But it goes beyond cost. Faster to automate, full flexibility, custom workflows that weren't even possible before. It's unlocking things we couldn't do before. Right now we're building one of our best projects yet. Fully custom site, custom design system, custom animations — all of it possible today because of Claude. And clients? They're still paying. Taste is something Claude will never understand. UX, design decisions, knowing what actually works, that still needs a human. Claude enabled people to do things they couldn't before, but AI is only as good as the person running it. It's a tool. The orchestrator still matters. Use it and get ahead or keep complaining.

Super clean design for a super cool client

This project is turning out crispy

Hierarchy at play

Our very first client is still with us. 2 years later. No pitch deck won them over. No proposal. Just one good deliverable that made them trust us enough to come back. And they kept coming back. That's the thing about trust, it doesn't just hold, it compounds. Two years in, we're not just delivering designs. We're embedded in how they think about their product. Most clients are used to managing their design team. Chasing updates, giving direction, babysitting timelines. With us they don't have to do any of that. We run ourselves. That's what retaining a client for 2 years actually looks like.

Shades of green

Clean cards

Ngl, this mouse feels really good!

The role I'm worst at as a founder is also the most important one. Talking about the business. I'm deep in the work every day. Designing, developing, mentoring, running operations. When it comes time to switch into "talk about what we do" mode, something in me resists it. It feels like stepping away from the thing I actually care about to perform a version of it for an audience. I know it matters. I know people can't hire you if they don't know you exist. But nobody tells you how hard it is to context switch from builder to influencer 10 times a day. Massive respect for those who do it consistently!

AI has genuinely changed how we work. Shipping faster. Sharper details. Opportunities we didn't have before. But I see everyone around me grinding harder than ever. Weekends. Nights. Keeping up. That's not ambition. That's fear of being left behind. The ones winning with AI aren't working harder. They stopped being afraid of it.

Japanese detailsss

Client: Make a complex engineering product feel simple. Us: Here you go:

AI = Gradients

This was such an awesome project to work on!

Im not a car designer but Im pretty sure I can design something better than this. WHAT ARE THOSE SCREENS??? WHATS WRONG WITH GERMAN CARS???

Looking at the latest controversy on design X, felt like a good time to continue this story. Here's what happened when I finally left. The founder threatened me. Called my family members instead of speaking to me directly because he was butt hurt. Then tried to sue me. My crime? Replying to his own employees when they messaged me after I left. He told my friends still at the agency not to be friends with me. Got my own cousin who still worked there to call me and tell me not to use any of the work in my portfolio. Then he called my father in law and told him he gave his daughter to a criminal (No, Im not kidding). He made my life hell for a few weeks. Eventually I stopped playing nice and started playing the same game. That's when he finally stopped. His excuse for all of it? "I gave you a platform no one else would." "I hired you when you were still studying" "I helped you learn". Employment is a two way street. You're not doing anyone a favor by giving them a "platform." People work for your vision, you pay them. That's it. Most Indian founders are toxic as hell. They make employees work in conditions you'd never see in Western countries. People put up with it because they have no choice. The ones who speak up get their careers ruined. That's why most stay quiet after leaving. What happened yesterday on design X isn't new. It's happened to almost every 3rd person who has worked at an agency in India. The damage is already done. Accept it, improve, move on. You don't need to keep defending yourselves on a public platform with invoices and screenshots. Whether you're a designer or developer, get a contract in place. It protects both sides. Be ethical. Not loyal. If you're not finding value, leave.

This could've been so much better with a designer in the loop. The problem isn't AI. It's that AI will hallucinate the hell out of a design task if you don't know what you're doing, and iterating more just makes it worse. The smarter move? Find an agency that uses AI to build and iterate fast, but actually knows what good looks like (We do exactly this) instead of going YOLO.