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I wanted to provide my perspective here based on the recent discourse around design as it relates to building. Different mediums surface different concerns. With modern tools, coding lets us move faster and understand constraints sooner. That was true pre-AI, and it's more true now. Code gives form to reality. Those constraints don't suffocate creativity—they give it something to work with. Before AI, I wasn't coding much. Now I ship and prototype with code almost every day. I can communicate intent faster, test ideas immediately, and see where I need to change course. A huge part of this is working directly with models. Simply understanding what a model outputs and how to steer it opens up novel directions you wouldn't have arrived at from a spec or a diagram. The same can be true whe...

Anything that exists with intention — a building, a workflow, a product — operates. When the purpose is clear, the operating system underneath reveals itself. In software, this is how we teach application: we expose the system through the medium that makes it legible. Sometimes that's a GUI. Sometimes it's voice. Sometimes it's something more ambient — sound, touch, the subtle feedback loops that signal state and direction. But across every medium, one principle stays constant: you need to feel close to the source. Designing well means standing at the edge of something alive. It's the sensation that the system has a pulse — that you can hear the forest breathing around you. When you're that close, you understand what must be built, how it should behave, and where it needs to evolve. You...