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Interfaces The Design Engineering Magazine What Makes an Interface Feel Great? I think a lot about what makes an interface feel great. When you go from using a good product to a great one, you can feel the difference.

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the future

AI, Ashby Engineering, and the Future 15 minute read Since August 2025, more than half of the new code hitting Ashby’s production systems has been AI-generated, yet customer issues remain broadly stable. More AI-written code. We have a blip in March / April every year; these cyclical patterns aren’t relevant to explain here.

Universal Memory Protocol – a shared format for agent memory

Universal Memory Protocol The third interoperability layer Section titled “The third interoperability layer”Agents can already call tools (MCP) and talk to each other (A2A). What they can’t do is carry memory across sessions, agents, and vendors.

Emerge Career (YC S22) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer

About the Role We are looking for our first AI-forward growth marketer who wants to outperform entire marketing teams. The engine is already running. You'll inherit real traction and real data, not a blank slate.

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Now, that's a lot of word processing. But under the hood it's still at least PDP-8 adjacent, even considering its oddities and incompatibilities, and you can make it do many of the things a full-size Eight can. We'll take this basic unit, convert the floppy drives to solid state, tap the video output, and put it through its paces.

Google has seriously leaned into AI enshittification lately

$5 billion-plus company GitLab cuts hundreds of jobs, exits 22 countries; CEO blames it on AI

GitLab is laying off around 350 employees, roughly 14% of its workforce, and pulling out of 22 countries—a restructuring CEO Bill Staples is pinning on what he calls the "agentic era" of software development. The DevSecOps company announced the cuts on Tuesday alongside a first quarter that beat Wall Street, with revenue up 23% to $264.2 million and adjusted earnings two cents above estimates. Shares climbed 7% after hours to $34.05, pushing market cap past $5 billion.

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds Over the last few years, deep neural networks have made generative language modeling dramatically more powerful, giving us large language models. A similar leap happened for continuous modalities like images and videos.

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

March 2008, rev. June 2008 Technology tends to separate normal from natural. Our bodies weren't designed to eat the foods that people in rich countries eat, or to get so little exercise. There may be a similar problem with the way we work: a normal job may be as bad for us intellectually as white flour or sugar is for us physically.