Envisioning (Near-)Future IA Design

Steering AI Beyond Automation

A Research Agenda and Plan for Action

A tale of two Agent Builders

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

AI is not a tool.

"Like all tools, it has its pros and cons. It brings about radical changes, but we'll adapt." This cliché was true for previous technologies. But it isn’t necessarily true for AI. A tool extends the human body or percept...

Half of Americans report using AI services, with information and productivity leading use cases

New Epoch AI/Ipsos poll reveals high AI engagement, diverse use cases, and emerging workplace integration

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

What we can’t measure about AI – yet | Aeon Essays

The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand

How AI Tools Differ from Human Tools

Why the mental models we've built for human interfaces don't work for AI, & how Anthropic's latest guidelines are reshaping tool design for better performance & efficiency.

After automation: Software will work for you, not on you

Alex Komoroske, CEO and cofounder, Common Tools — AI promises “infinite software”—endless tools tailored to every need—but funneled through today's app stores, that abundance just means more silos, more trapped data, and more to orchestr...

Agentultra - Why I Won't Use AI

If you are a programmer in 2025 you have likely been pressured into adopting generative artificial intelligence tools into your workflow. Maybe you have already been ordered to. You have probably wondered if next year will be the year that you will be replaced with an AI. Or maybe in the next five years. Weren’t we supposed to be replaced already?

AI in the workplace vs. AI in education

Quoting Dan Willingham: Students should only use AI for things that they already know how to do well.

Tapping Into AI’s Conservatism

AI favors established frameworks. Knowing that will change how you develop your information systems.