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“Congress is still writing in waterfall, stuck in a world that is quickly passing them by. It wants one comprehensive (dare I say beautiful) AI bill, fully specified, passed once, ideally after everyone agrees, which is to say never.
The internet’s builders would have found that laughable. They governed a technology that was changing under their feet, and they did it by treating governance the way good teams treat a product, as a living thing you steer, not a monument you unveil.”
The lie we keep telling ourselves about regulating AI →
By Dan Maccarone
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Editor picks
- What is a screen made of? →
Flat design was right that the screen isn’t leather.
By Takuma Kakehi - The variance problem in AI products →
Fast one day, slow the next.
By Adi Leviim - Where does your work go when the tool shuts down? →
Who’s archiving it?
By Dora Czerna
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A player that needed to do more than play video →
By Milan Manojlović
Make me think
- I am often wrong →
“I apply something like these six steps for pretty much every problem, and pretty much every product (a product solves a problem for users). I apply this rough framework many times on most days.” - Making software hurts now →
“Now, every act of giving is treated with suspicion. The gift of openness is no longer trustworthy on its own. The receivers of free software want to know how the gift came to be. Is it pure, or was it made with dirty machinery?” - I don’t want the details →
“A few months ago I was dragged into a call with my engineering counterpart and their boss (who happens to be our SVP of engineering). Something had gone wrong that shouldn’t have. Nothing catastrophic, but important enough that I was now on a call with an SVP. I started to explain how it happened when they cut me off with “Michael, I don’t want the details.”
Cool finds
I gave my website a boss fight →
A lightweight library full of beautiful loading indicators for React →
Careers & more
- Nobody starts as an accessibility expert →
Designers, leave your intimidation at the door.
By Hope Turner - Should the job of a UX designer be reserved for humans? →
What happens when AI does it better.
By Slava Polonski, PhD - Can stress be quantified? →
The science and design behind wearable stress tracking.
By Catherine Chu
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