The Cost YAGNI Was Never About

If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.

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New research shows honesty about AI use at work is backfiring - Inside Atlassian

New research from Atlassian's Teamwork Lab finds that workers who disclose using AI are judged as 10x lazier than peers doing identical work, unless their company has built a culture that celebrates i...

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AI Won’t Save the Kingdoms We Built

This post is about the people who built the fiefdoms now looking to AI to save them from the fiefdoms, and why that will only work if we are honest about what those fiefdoms were built to avoid in the...

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The digital Kowloon

What a walled city in Hong Kong can teach us about the future of AI development. And why vibe coding might be a regression to the 1990s…

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AI is rewriting the rules. Language is following.

Language has always evolved. But this time, it’s being rewired faster than most of us can keep up with.

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Code Isn’t Product

A year ago I wrote about how AI would shift the bottlenecks in product development from the middle of the cycle — writing code — to the end, where we help customers understand what we built, try it, a...

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Google Reader was building the wrong future

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

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The gesture and the instruction

Making-feel, result-feel: Two kinds of design work, two kinds of tired

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Demystifying Clickbait: You’ll NEVER Believe What I Learned (Video)

Instead of understanding clickbait, writers often avoid anything associated with the practice, to the detriment of their writing.

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The T-shaped UX professional is giving way to the polymath architect

The T-shaped UX professional is giving way to the polymath architect What happens to UX specialists with narrow skills when AI collapses the distance between idea and execution, and depth alone no …

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Why your team keeps shipping products nobody buys

How the Alignment Tax

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The old adage that people leave managers, not companies is true – but only up to a point

Organisations need to take their share of responsibility, too.

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How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

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Paycom Software: Innovation Without Acceleration

Growth continues to slow despite promises to the contrary

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Design without borders

How icon design reveals a perspective on accessibility

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Someone designed this

Why bad UX is often a business decision, not a design failure.

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Why Semantic Data Layers matter to product teams

Practical ways you can use it for speeding up discovery, making analytics self-serve, building better in-product search capabilities and more.

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Use AI Responsibly in Analysis (Video)

AI can assist your UX research analysis — but shouldn't lead it. Discover four responsible ways to use AI as a thought partner while keeping critical thinking and interpretation in your hands.

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Community Banks Have the Data. They Just Can't See It.

Community banks have the data that fintechs wish they had. They're still losing ground to them.

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Exploring vs Exploiting: The Two Modes of Product Discovery — Ant Murphy

I see too many teams treat product discovery as a process of validating ideas they already have. But discovery has two distinct modes: exploring and exploiting—and the best product teams do both. In ...

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The organizational cost of low taste

When taste is weak, organizations don’t fail in strategy. They fail in decisions.

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No, One Toyota Worker Can't Stop the Whole Factory

Pulling the andon cord doesn't stop the line every time, and segmented buffers keep the whole factory running. Here's what it really asks of workers.

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Dear Figma, I believe you can survive. Here’s why.

We’re living through the first great AI revolution humanity has ever faced, and honestly? I press my hand to my forehead about once a day…

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What Designers Actually Struggle with on Product Teams

Designers' top struggles aren't about design skills. They're about alignment, influence, and navigating complexity — the work no one taught them to do.

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When a feature becomes a platform: The product decisions that change everything

What direct indexing reveals about state, scalability, and long-term product design Most product managers have worked with capabilities that appear straightforward at first but reveal deeper complexit...

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How difficult could it be to design a chatbot?

Harder than you think. And higher stakes than most people building them realise.

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A2UI under the hood: Designing for the new era of radically adaptive UI

An introduction for designers

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Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork | Spotify Engineering

TL;DR  LLM evals, automated judges that assess relevance, coherence, and quality at scale, are a powerful new tool. Paired with online experiments, they raise the hit rate of what we test and create a...

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Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Coding with LLMs (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) is often presented as the ‘killer app’ for Generative AI. But looking at data, it seems the one piece of the puzzle missing is actual cost. …

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