first up: bringing back my first childhood dog

DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.

llms can FIGHT now. here's opus as wizard vs gpt-5.4 as robot. calling this budok-ai. it works by modding the brilliant game yomi hustle. 8-model seeded tournament incoming. details and code below:

Sub-agents in (latent) space! We’ve been working on a side project. As far as I know, this is the first massively multiplayer, completely LLM-driven game. Come play Gradient Bang with us. See if you can catch me on the leaderboard. This whole thing started because I wanted to explore a bunch of things I’m currently obsessed with, in an application of non-trivial size, that felt both new and old at the same time. So … a retro-style space trading game built entirely around interacting with and managing multiple LLMs. Factorio, but instead of clicking, you cajole your ship AI into tasking other AIs to do things for you. Some of the things we’ve been thinking about as we hack on Gradient Bang: - Sub-agent orchestration - Partial context sharing between multiple LLM inference loops - Managing very long contexts, and episodic memory across user sessions - World events and large volumes of structured data input as part of human/agent conversations - Dynamic user interfaces, driven/created on the fly by LLMs - And, of course, voice as primary input If you’ve been building coding harnesses, or writing Open Claw agents, or doing pretty much anything that pushes the boundaries of AI-native development these days, you’re probably thinking about these things too! This is all built with @pipecat_ai, the back end is @supabase, the React front end is deployed to @vercel, and all the code is open source.

🚇🇸🇬 we made a SG MRT station guessing game - 3 tries to match the names to 5 stations on the MRT map - hints provided for line direction - speedrun mode so you can brag to friends - island-wide tour if you're good enough try it here: 👉 mrt.eiti.dev 🚇