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What we are learning.

What we are learning while we build an instrument for the human side of working with AI.

  1. A developer works late in a dark room, lit by three monitors of code and a laptop, with more screens glowing behind him.

    November 3, 2026

    How many agents can you run at once before your judgment drops?

    Everyone has a number of agents they run at once. Nobody measured it. What people say, what they do, and a check you can run on your own last week.

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  2. Rows of workers in blue uniforms sit at a long factory assembly line under bright industrial lights, sorting small parts into cardboard boxes on wheeled carts.

    November 2, 2026

    Agents wrote more code. Firms shipped little more. Where did your review time go?

    Harvard tracked 655 firms using AI coding agents. Commits jumped 36%, review wait times jumped 56%, and finished software barely moved. What did you approve?

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  3. Two colleagues sit side by side at a wooden table in a bright office. A young woman points at a chart on a laptop while a man in a mustard jumper listens, a chalkboard of sketched diagrams behind them.

    October 23, 2026

    AI is removing the people who told you your work was good

    Companies hire fewer beginners and give managers more people to look after. Recruiter Deepali Vyas explains why, and what it means for your own growth.

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  4. Seen from above, a person sketches an app’s user flow in a grid notebook, screen by screen with arrows, writing on a coral sticky note while a keyboard, mouse and cup of tea sit around the page.

    October 22, 2026

    Anthropic says your design judgment matters more than ever. OpenAI is teaching it to the model.

    OpenAI grades GPT-6’s design judgment. Anthropic’s Meaghan Choi says yours matters more than ever. Four habits from her talk, and who grades yours.

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  5. Seen over his shoulder, a man in glasses reads code on a monitor in a bright open office, while a colleague with her hair tied up works at the desk opposite.

    October 21, 2026

    When Claude writes 90% of the code, what is left for the humans?

    Anthropic shared how Claude Code ships 30,000 changes a day. Every fix makes the machines better. Five decisions are still yours, and how to practise them.

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  6. Seen from above, a man in glasses and a black T-shirt sits on a sofa and writes in a small notebook, a sketchbook of diagrams under his arm. An open laptop is pushed to the side of the coffee table, next to a phone and a lit candle.

    October 20, 2026

    Matt Pocock stopped writing code. The skill he says matters now is yours to practise.

    Matt Pocock stopped writing code. The gist of his talk with Nate Herk, what he changed his mind about, and six practices to start this week.

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  7. A man in glasses and a dark jacket types on a laptop at a wooden desk, an open notebook and pen beside it, in a bright office with a brick wall and shelves behind him.

    October 19, 2026

    Theo says your prompts kinda suck. The fix is on your side of the keyboard.

    Theo Browne says engineers overengineer their prompts. The gist of his new video, the examples worth knowing, and what it asks of the person.

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  8. A health worker in blue scrubs holds a stethoscope to a patient’s inner arm, below a dark blue cuff with a round gauge, taking a blood-pressure reading by hand. Neither face is shown.

    August 27, 2026

    An AI Described How I Work. I Agreed. The Next Day I Threw It Out.

    An AI described how I work and I agreed. A day later I threw it out. What a 1949 experiment and blood-pressure monitors say about every AI summary of you.

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  9. A jointed wooden artist’s mannequin lies tucked into a bed, its head on a small linen pillow and its arms resting on top of a black and white zigzag blanket.

    August 24, 2026

    A Passing Check Is a Claim, Not Evidence

    Nine checks passed in three days of building with AI agents, and all nine were wrong. Why a green build is a claim, and where to look before you believe it.

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  10. A young man in a white knit beanie and glasses stands in a snowy yard, his breath visible as a cloud of vapour in the cold air. Trucks are blurred behind him.

    August 20, 2026

    Breathing Is Not Your Strongest Habit

    Sense’s first reading said my strongest habit was one everyone has, 40 of 40 times. Why counting tells you little, and what surgeons and pilots rate instead.

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  11. A Lego X-wing fighter with a minifigure pilot sitting in its open cockpit, in an orange flight suit and a white helmet. A second minifigure stands out of focus behind it.

    August 17, 2026

    How to Tell if You Are Steering the AI or Just Babysitting It

    Give two developers the same feature on Monday. By lunch both are done, same tests, same pull request. Only one of them was flying the plane.

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  12. A professional working alone at a wooden desk at night with a laptop

    August 14, 2026

    The Day I Realized AI Was Changing My Behavior Without My Permission

    Four hours in, my prompts had shrunk to "looks good, next". What that told us about working with AI, and why we built the feedback loop for ourselves first.

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