Humanizing tech. MD: Sutter Hill Ventures Founder: Polar (Google acquired) Bagcheck (Twitter acquired) Wrote: Mobile First, Web Form Design Pre: NCSA eBay Yahoo

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design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. agents can read them every single time they write code. new article on design systems for agents: lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys…
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AI is an ideal denial of service attack against bureaucrats.
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now with data: 75% of all new deliveries included full self driving subscriptions, up from 55% in Q2 2026 xitter.cf/SawyerMerritt/status/2…
it's under appreciated how much unlimited tokens is a draw for top-tier talent.
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20 years of the iOS camera app.
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all our AI-native companies are wrestling with these agentic software design/UI needs: - tracking what's happening (many agents) lukew.com/ff/2165/many-agent… - showing what got done (by agents) lukew.com/ff/2142/showing-th… - keeping design coherent (agent instructions) lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys… - multi-player & collaboration (people+ agents) lukew.com/ff/2153/collaborat… - asset creation tools (agent workflows) lukew.com/ff/2146/consistent…
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and as @Wattenberger reminded me... window management. everyone is searching for the best tabs, panels, canvas, sidebar approach. aka re-thinking the SaaS shape.
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why? more is being produced by agents faster (docs, images, code). where/how to display it all? hence windowing solutions. still a fan of this approach which results in a thread of results only, not process.
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a personal AI is only as good as its content. bunch of ways I improved mine: - voice-aware transcription to recognize me - real-time indexing of new tweets - audio & video timestamps to jump to right moments - vision model to describe PDFs and images - hourly indexing of new content - and more: lukew.com/ff/2168/ask-lukew-…
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new in Intent today: - group work by detailed status - paste images into agent answers - reuse sent messages - global Assistant can add & check MCP servers - global Assistant can manage your chats - provider CLI version warnings - long chats open faster - plus fixes & polish in release notes: intentapp.dev/updates
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after circling back to rounded buttons 10 years ago, iOS calculator design has had a decade of consistency since.
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Your agents just entered the fold. Intent Mobile is the first large scale agent orchestration app that's Duo-optimized.
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thole stack in your hand run commands in full terminals and start or stop saved scripts with a tap. preview your dev servers to review changes. manage context in specs and notes.
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the number of Physics majors just spiked.
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even more true with today's frontier models.
it's under appreciated how much unlimited tokens is a draw for top-tier talent.
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i've written 98+ articles about designing AI products over the past 4.5 years. have at 'em: lukew.com/ff?tag=ai%20design
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the ability to turn tasks into reproducible agent outcomes is an increasingly valuable skill.
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