Articles
- The Compute Bill Is Coming for Your Roadmap
Neocloud megarounds, new AI VC firms, and regional hiring wars are about to reshape your tooling costs and talent market. Here's what changed and what to do.
- The Chips Under Your AI Features Just Got Political
The hardware layer behind your AI features is now a competitive and political fight. Here's what the chip war means for your roadmap.
- Stop Reporting What Your Team Did. Start Reporting What Changed.
How design leaders can tie UX to revenue, defend headcount, and stop getting labeled a cost center. Let me catch you up on what shifted.
- The prompt writes the screen. It won't tell you if the screen should exist.
AI design tools ship faster, but the thinking, framing, and craft judgment still belong to your team. Here's what actually changed and what to do about it.
- The CSS you already know just got safer to standardize
CSS translate functions and February's Baseline features give your design system concrete things to lock down. Here's what changed and what to do Monday.
- Your Agent's First Reply Is a Retention Decision
Default prompts, agent tone, and eval scores predict AI feature retention. Here's what the data shows and what to fix on your team first.
- Your Design Tool Just Learned to Code, Test, and Click
Figma ships code layers and Gemini gets a mouse. Here's what agentic design and dev tools change for your team's build-versus-buy calls.
- Your audience can smell the AI. Here's what they're buying instead.
Scout rebrands, self-funded print zines, and contract playbooks all point one way: creative leaders are betting on authenticity and ownership over AI sameness.
- The Best Helper on Your Team Is the One Closest to Burning Out
How to structure teams, rethink the growth role, and help people without wearing yourself down. Ray reads the leadership stuff so you don't have to.
- Meta Broke Its Own Team for AI, Then Started Charging for a Chip You Already Own
Zuckerberg admits Meta's AI reorg is wobbling while it paywalls smart glasses features. Here's what it means for how you set AI timelines on your team.
- Attention is the product. So is walking away from it.
Tinder made a TikTok dating show while a $59 gadget locks your phone. Here's what the engagement versus attention split means for your product team.
- Your AI Product Doesn't Behave Like Your Old One. Your Metrics Should Change Too.
AI product OKRs should measure what users do, not model accuracy. Here's how to write behavior-based key results and version-control your PM workflow.
- Your AI Budget Just Became a Line Item.
Token rationing is here. Here's how design and product leaders should govern AI inference cost before finance does it for you.
- Your Best Reviewer Is Doing a Machine's Job on Friday Night
AI is splitting design system review into rules a machine can enforce and judgment only a human should own. Here's what to automate and what to protect.
- Your A/B Test Wins Are Lying to You
AI floods your team with variants while your experimentation discipline slips. Here's what breaks, and what to check before you ship the next winner.
- Cheap agents just got here. Test them on your own work before you ship.
Anthropic's Sonnet 5 makes agentic AI cheap, and eval shops like Arena are booming. Here's how to benchmark models on your tasks before betting a feature.
- You Need a Consent Policy Before Your Team Ships the Voice
AI voices, deepfakes, and fake profiles are forcing product leaders to write authenticity and consent rules. Here is what changed and what to do Monday.
- Your Team Can Ship a Prototype This Week. That's the New Problem.
AI coding platforms and agent frameworks make prototyping cheap and fast. Here is what that means for your roadmap and your next review.
- The AI vendors want to move into your building
Microsoft, Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all launching forward-deployed AI engineering orgs. Here's what it means for your roadmap and your lock-in risk.
- Your Best Hires Are Rebuilding Themselves. Are You Watching?
Designers are surviving 550 rejections, launching agencies at 45, and questioning briefs. Here is what that tells design leaders about coaching and retention.