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The Streak and the Straw: What Karpathy Gets Right, and What Duolingo Gets Away With
Real learning is slow and painful. So why do I trust my Duolingo owl? A note on load-bearing friction, and what it means for the products we design.
 • Fanny
The Designer’s Dev Setup: How I’d Build a Portfolio Website with Claude Code and VSCode in 2026
There’s a specific kind of dread that comes with building your own portfolio.
 • Fanny
When Designers Vibe-Code, Who Owns “Mergeable”?
Design Eng Handoff in the AI era
 • Fanny
The Week Voice AI Stopped Taking Turns
Full-duplex voice shipped, the first anthropomorphic AI regulation took effect, and designers got handed a medium with no screen to hide behind.
 • Fanny
The Phone That Wants to Delete Your Apps
What WAIC 2026 in Shanghai just revealed about the next fight in product design, and why it isn’t about models anymore
 • Fanny

June 2026

Connecting WHOOP with Claude, and Google Calendar
The most powerful personal health stack that interprets your health data.
 • Fanny
Robinhood Agentic Trading
Agentic Finance Has Arrived, and the UX Playbook Doesn’t Exist Yet
 • Fanny
You’re Not Just the Designer. You’re Everything.
What it really feels like to be the sole designer at a startup, and what you can’t learn anywhere else
 • Fanny
What “Design” Actually Looks Like at AI-Native Companies in 2026
A field report from inside the companies rewriting the rules
 • Fanny
We Already Have AGI. So Why Isn’t It Working?
The most important insight from HumanX 2026 wasn’t about a new model. It was about a hard truth most of us aren’t ready to face.
 • Fanny
Speed Is Free. Judgment Is the New Moat.
How winning product teams are restructuring their workflows to Think, Test, Build, and Ship with AI — and why most are still doing it wrong.
 • Fanny

May 2026

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