Research
We follow frontier AI and publish what we learn and what we think about it. We publish work before it is finished and improve it with each new version.
Papers
Notes
- The return of ornament: design when agents do the buildingOrnament did not disappear because it was ugly. It disappeared because it cost too much. As the cost of making things approaches zero, the labor-intensive beauty of the past becomes usable again, and what remains for people is to choose, to hold back, and to check.
- Running an AI-native companyA working model for a company in which AI agents do most of the work. People decide what matters; agents prepare and carry out the work.
- AFHL: Agent-first, Human-last engineeringA way of building software in which agents plan, implement, verify, and record the work, and a person comes in last to try the real thing and judge its UI and UX. Based on the ten days in which we started five apps.
- Thinking with physical nodesAn attempt to move a desk-based way of thinking — arranging round paper labels — onto the iPhone. It is also the entry point to a long-held idea: keeping thoughts outside your head so you can pick them up again later.