I’ve been thinking a lot about product design, both personally and professionally. Particularly as AI systems get better and better at the how of software development (data structures, architecture, etc) human beings are going to be increasingly focused on the what needs built and the why it needs built that way.

To my friend Mike’s point tell a tool like OpenAI Codex or Anthropic Claude Code to build something, like an RSS reader, and it will build one. Tell it to build a great RSS reader (whic...