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Escape from agentic loop
Issue 297: Human-in-the-Loop is the new doom scrolling
May 10 • David Hoang
Draftsmanship
Issue 296: The hand finds what the prompt misses
May 3 • David Hoang

April 2026

Design Systems are now Inference Systems
Issue 295: From prescriptive patterns to adaptive parameters
Apr 26 • David Hoang
The shape of leadership
Issue 294: Where do leaders spend their time now?
Apr 19 • David Hoang
The formlessness of AI agents
Issue 292: Finding the right vessel for new capabilities
Apr 12 • David Hoang
The protégé problem today
Issue 292: Knowledge flows downhill anymore
Apr 5 • David Hoang

March 2026

AI tokens are mana
Issue 291: Spend them like you mean it
Mar 29 • David Hoang
Product Design lessons from the MacBook Neo
Issue 290: Knowing what to cut is the hardest part of design
Mar 22 • David Hoang
Re-writing Tapestry for AI workflows
Issue 289: I shipped a production app, then blew it all up
Mar 15 • David Hoang
Forward deployed designer
Issue 288: Go to the problem
Mar 8 • David Hoang
Software interoperability
Issue 287: Your moat is now a bridge
Mar 1 • David Hoang

February 2026

Sketching with code
Issue 286: Treating code like a pencil, not a blueprint
Feb 22 • David Hoang
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