My AI team built an app while I was running a craft stall
I spent the year building a team of AI agents. Then I spent a weekend pushing them as hard as I could, from my phone, between customers at a craft fair.
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Field notes from the AI wave
Adaptation strategies, tech worth knowing about, and true stories from a career designer (now product manager) figuring out the next wave in public.
I let an AI build my landing page. Here's what I still had to fix
An AI coding agent built a whole website from my brief. It was fast, impressive, and wrong in exactly the places where taste lives.
read it →I wrote a book in three days. Here's what AI actually did
A WHSmith book chart, a long weekend and a fictional AI called PROSE-7. An honest split of what the machine wrote, and what it still needed me for.
read it →What 10 years at one company taught me about reinvention
Everyone says the way to adapt is to jump ship. I've reinvented myself several times without leaving the building. Here's what staying taught me.
read it →The designer's guide to writing a spec an AI can't misread
Magic prompts expire with every model update. A good brief doesn't. Why the PM's oldest tool is the most valuable AI skill a designer can learn.
read it →When clients ask if AI can do it cheaper
The question stings the first time you hear it. But it's a fair one, and if you can't answer it, the market will answer it for you. Here's how I learned to respond.
read it →AI didn't take my job. It took my busywork
Two years of using AI daily at work, honestly audited: the tasks it swallowed, the tasks it can't touch, and why 'human in the loop' isn't a slogan. It's the job.
read it →This isn't my first extinction event
I installed a game off 26 floppy disks. I heard the dial-up scream. I watched Flash die and Figma eat XD. AI is the biggest wave yet, but the survival pattern hasn't changed.
read it →The only 4 AI skills designers actually need this year
New AI tools launch weekly and most will be gone by Christmas. These four skills are the grammar underneath all of them. Learn these and every new tool is a weekend, not a crisis.
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