A month of designing with Claude Fable 5
Honest notes from pairing with a frontier model every day for a month — where it's genuinely brilliant, where human taste still decides, and why that division of labour makes me optimistic.
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Theories, posted in good faith.
Occasional writing on design, the web, and why I'm genuinely optimistic about AI. No hot takes for the algorithm — just things I believe enough to put my name under.
Notion MCP and the quiet end of app-switching
MCP is USB-C for software. Since wiring my workspace to my tools, the app's UI is no longer the only door — and that changes what we should be designing.
ReadAgentic AI is a UX problem wearing an engineering costume
Delegation needs the same heuristics we've applied to interfaces for thirty years: visibility of status, undo, and a gradient of trust you can climb.
ReadThe calm case for AI optimism
Every tool that "ended design" — desktop publishing, WordPress, Figma — expanded it instead. A designer's argument for optimism without the hype.
ReadGood interfaces are becoming verbs
A theory: the history of computing is screens dissolving into actions. The interfaces that survive aren't the prettiest nouns — they're the most trustworthy verbs.
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