AI Design & Technical Tools

I’ve been thinking about and talking to several people about the idea that taste might be one of the few things AI can’t replicate yet.

Not the surface stuff, like knowing which fonts look good together, but the deeper editorial judgment about what matters and what doesn’t.

This week’s lead article digs into this really thoughtfully. Worth reading if this question has been nagging at you, too.

Most Interesting

The Last Days Of Social Media

Mass platforms are drowning in AI slop while users retreat to smaller, intentional spaces. The shift toward friction-based, community-governed alternatives feels inevitable when engagement algorithms optimize for everything except human connection.

Design for AI - the Invisible Features

The best AI features work like Gmail’s spam filter: completely invisible until they gracefully fail. This piece makes the case that announcing your AI capabilities is usually a sign you haven’t integrated them properly yet. BUILDING BLOCKS

A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad

Someone built this Go-based CLI tool in 10 minutes using AI to parse macOS system logs and identify slow cables instantly. Perfect example of how vibe-coding removes friction from utility scripts that would have taken hours to research and build manually.

Convierto: Native macOS file converter

SwiftUI-built converter that handles everything from PDFs to videos with smart format detection and batch processing. Sometimes you just want a tool that works like it belongs on your system instead of feeling like a web app pretending to be native.