A year spent fighting scrapers on a 1.5 million page site, a look at how Raycast's rewrite keeps its speed, and practical advice on breaking up your design system so agents can actually read it. Plus honest talk about why designers feel uneasy about AI right now.
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Uber President and COO Andrew Macdonald says India and Brazil are already among Uber’s largest markets by trip volume, but the economics look very different. With fares of just a few dollars, he says it could take decades for autonomous vehicles to compete with the cost of human drivers in those markets.
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The Raycast team explains the cross-platform rewrite and the small details that keep it feeling fast and familiar. Good reading on performance as a craft decision.
Graham's long essay on finding work worth doing and sticking with it. Widely shared and worth the time.
TechCrunch on consumers growing warier of AI even as it becomes unavoidable. Useful context for anyone designing AI features people actually want.
OpenAI ships a version of ChatGPT with different defaults and guardrails for teenagers. A case study in designing for age-specific safety.
Andrew Macdonald (Mac) is the longest-serving employee at Uber Today, he is the President and COO. No one on the planet has spent more time mastering ride-sharing than Mac. Uber now does 300M rides per week, has 200M users, and is one of the most recognised brands on the planet. Mac never does interviews and so this was a rare look behind the scenes at the Uber machine.
Is anyone's job actually safe from AI? Anthropic's own co-founder doesn't think so. Benjamin Mann on job replacement, plus one habit that upgrades how you use Claude Code.
Lovable just raised $400M in Series C funding. It started with 15 people and $10M ARR in two months. Anton Osika (co-founder of Lovable) on how it all began.
Ian Silber (Head of Product Design at OpenAI) on why some designers are struggling to navigate the AI era.
If you don’t want your AI agent to choke on your design.md, stop putting your entire design system into one file.
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what’s working now.
Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation across all apps. The [ ]
