Writing
Articles on designing and building with AI agents.
14 Oct 2026
About 5 minutes
Who wins: you, your rules or DESIGN.md?
Your design system is set when the project starts. Your rules change every week you build. When they disagree, or you ask for something they don’t allow, what should the agent do?
13 Oct 2026
About 6 minutes
How Vercel teaches its agents design
One team has shown how it runs design decisions for its agents, week after week. What does it track, who decides, and how does that compare with Arbiter?
7 Oct 2026
About 7 minutes
A hundred decisions later
What happens when your decision file has 100 decisions, twice what the agent can read at once? I ran tests to find out.
29 Sep 2026
About 6 minutes
Where DESIGN.md fits
Designers built a lot of context for AI agents this year. What each piece is good for, and the layer that’s still missing.
28 Sep 2026
About 6 minutes
The handbook problem
Why AI agents skip the design rules you give them, and what the teams that fixed it have in common.