when agencies merge, they tend to drift away from the core vision.
that vision is what holds the best people together.
as the vision drifts, the best people quietly leave.
interface and task both will be invisible
only interface will be voice for all the task
users don't have even worry about the task
HCI evolution at its peak.
"Success isn't linear" by Yoann Bourgeois
Success is not a straight line upwards, it's a journey with many falls, and the strength to get up, no matter how hard the fall.
📹Mathieu Stern.
The biggest opportunities for AI startups today
We surveyed my readers about how they're using AI today, and more importantly, how they want to be using AI.
For PMs, the biggest opportunity is research. User research shows the largest demand gap of any task. Only 4.7% say it’s their primary AI use case today, but nearly a third want it to be. PMs have figured out how to use AI for output tasks like writing PRDs and drafting communications, but they’re hungry to apply it upstream, to the messy work of understanding what to build.
Prototyping is a breakout category across functions, both today and in the future. For PMs, “creating mockups/prototypes” jumps from 19.8% (currently using) to 44.4% (want to use next), a +24.6pp swing that makes it the single most-wanted future use case.
For designers, prototyping and interaction design show similar momentum (+27.8pp). This tracks with the rise of tools like Lovable, v0, Replit, and Figma Make.
Engineers are shifting their use of AI to handle work after writing the code. Writing code is by far their most popular use case (51% current), but it has a demand gap of only +5.6pp. However, documentation (+25.8pp), code review (+24.5pp), and writing tests (+23.5pp) all show massive opportunities for growth in engineering AI tooling.
Founders are doubling down on AI as a thinking partner. Product ideation shows massive demand, jumping from 19.6% (currently using) to 48.6% (want to use next), a +29.0pp gap. Growth strategy and GTM planning (+24.7pp) and market analysis (+24.0pp) follow close behind.
Founders already use AI heavily for personal productivity (32.9% currently), but they want to move upstream. They’re looking for pressure-test ideas, explore markets, and think through go-to-market. AI as a co-founder, not just an assistant.
Full report by @noamseg: https://t.co/2ra234FE8e
Vercel will be officially sponsoring https://t.co/QF7eOed81b. That's a given. We as a community and industry owe @adamwathan and team a lot. Tailwind is foundational web infrastructure at this point (it fixed CSS 😉). I've also reached out to Adam to explore how we can make this a longer-term commitment.
We just open sourced the code-simplifier agent we use on the Claude Code team.
Try it: claude plugin install code-simplifier
Or from within a session:
/plugin marketplace update claude-plugins-official
/plugin install code-simplifier
Ask Claude to use the code simplifier agent at the end of a long coding session, or to clean up complex PRs. Let us know what you think!
The next 12-24 months in AI content will be fascinating.
Right now? LLMs still rank and trust human-written content higher than AI-generated text — not because AI is "worse" at writing, but because models are literally starving for fresh, high-quality human data that isn’t already in their training sets.
We’re in the final chapter where “who wrote it” actually moves the needle.
Soon, that distinction collapses.
The models will be so good, and the data flywheel so fast, that the only thing that will matter is:
- Does it feel authentic?
- Does it deliver real insight or value?
- Does it spark a genuine reaction?
When that shift happens, the winners won’t be the people hiding from AI tools.
They’ll be the ones who master using AI as a thought partner while keeping their unique voice, judgment, and lived experience at the center.
We’re moving from “AI vs Human” to “Human + AI vs Human alone.”
The gap is about to get very wide, very fast.
What side of that line do you want to be on?
cooking baby cursor 3.0 with @leerob. there's something you can only feel when it feels real.
can't wait to ship a Cursor that's both simple and infinitely powerful.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the biggest threat to data centers is intelligence that runs locally on your device
If models run on your own chip, they can watch your workflow and adapt via "test time training" without data ever leaving your computer
"you own it. it's your brain"
Nvidia CEO: Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.
Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.
Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - the third in my annual series of reviews of the past twelve months
https://t.co/HD9Zf85SG2
This year it's divided into 26 sections! This is the table of contents: