Field notes
AI, product judgment, and the systems behind software that ships.
If your font workflow ends at a pretty alphabet poster, you do not have a font product. You have an image.
The next elite developer will not be measured by how much code they type. They will be measured by how well they direct machines that can already move.
Agentic systems are becoming operational infrastructure. If the record of action is missing, the product is not mature enough to trust.
A new app boom is only good news if the products deserve to survive after the first demo.
The ecological cost of AI is not an anti-tech talking point. It is a design constraint builders should treat like latency, security, and margin.