







Direct manipulation vs. interface agents
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LukeW | Agent Management Interface Patterns
As an increasing number of AI applications evolve to agents doing work for people, agent management becomes a critical part of these product's design. How can p...

A tale of two Agent Builders
What two competing solutions to the same design problem tell about the future of designing AI interfaces.

Agents Will Kill Your Ul by 2026--Unless You Build This Instead
Writing effective tools for AI agents—using AI agents
Writing effective tools for AI agents—using AI agents

Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end
In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.

Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention

Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies
On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention



Composing Action: Representative Agents and the Search for Viable Arrangements | shishyko!
Why promising ideas die between discovery and action, and how representative agents might help
Agents vs Operating Systems : The War That Could Kill Apps
Skills, forks, and self-surgery: how agent harnesses grow
Claude Code, NanoClaw, and Pi take radically different approaches to harness extensibility. The tradeoff is always safety vs. agent agency.

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness | Data For Science
From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.

Agent Plugins
A portable package format for reusable components that extend AI agents.

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