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The Feed & The Thread - March 24, 2026 · The Feed & The Thread

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Patrick Neeman says the AI revolution won't be televised.
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So it's not a sudden boom, but a slow transformation? Exactly, a
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hundred and twenty year arc like the Industrial Revolution. That
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changes everything about how we prepare for it. And that's where
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the real design work begins. Let's get into it.
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The AI revolution won't be a sudden broadcast, but a slow,
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automated arc mirroring the Industrial Revolution. That
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rewrites the assumption that new tools alone drive change. We're
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actually facing a century-long shift in how we structure work
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and wages. Patrick Neeman at UX Design.cc makes this case in
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"The intelligence revolution won't be televised," and it
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forces us to rethink the employer-employee contract. He
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argues that true transformation requires deep process control,
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not just mechanical efficiency. This means high wages and
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reduced hours might be the necessary price of automation.
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And before we rush to build autonomous agents, we must
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resist the urge to skip the unsexy work of mapping
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workflows. Dan Saffer at On Dan Saffer's blog warns in "Task
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Analysis for AI Agents" that skipping this step leads to
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brittle automation. He shows how decomposing goals into sub-tasks
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prevents dangerous failures in high-stakes environments like
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claims processing. Meanwhile, the web interface is getting
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more fluid thanks to a new mathematical property that goes
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beyond simple border radius. Daniel Schwarz at CSS-Tricks
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explores this in "Experimenting With Scroll-Driven corner-shape
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Animations," where he uses superellipse functions to
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animate corners from notches to squares. This technique ties the
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animation timeline directly to the user's scroll position for a
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dynamic effect. Also worth your time today: new work from
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MitoWare, Brad Frost, and UX Design.cc.
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Welcome to the Thread, where we check in on what the community
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is actually talking about today. Over on r/UXDesign, people are
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frustrated when interviews end because a role gets closed
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unexpectedly. It feels like a waste of everyone's time and
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energy. This signals how volatile the current hiring
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landscape has become. Teams are moving faster than candidates
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can keep up, leaving many stuck in limbo without closure. In
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r/UXResearch, the conversation focuses on breaking free from
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analysis paralysis. Researchers often wait for perfect data
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before sharing any insights at all. That hesitation creates a
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bottleneck where nothing ships. The goal should be finding
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enough evidence to act, not waiting for certainty that never
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arrives. New interns on r/UXDesign are sharing that
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they've got almost nothing to do with their day. Silence in the
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team chat can feel like failure or a lack of trust. But often,
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it just means the team hasn't figured out how to onboard them
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yet. It's a sign to ask for clarity rather than assuming
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you're invisible. Academic hopefuls in r/hci are asking if
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anyone has heard back from waitlists or rejections yet. The
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waiting game is draining energy right before the semester
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starts. It's a reminder that acceptance isn't just about your
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skills, but also about timing and capacity. Back on
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r/UXDesign, the latest gripe involves users of Figma's Make
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credits. Some feel the new features are bloating the tool
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unnecessarily. It shows how quickly enthusiasm can turn to
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fatigue when tools add complexity without solving real
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problems. Don't worry, Figma's going to InVision themselves
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soon enough, folks. Get moving on your vibe coding! Today's
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mood feels like a mix of cautious optimism and deep
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exhaustion from the wait.
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There's an open call for speakers so submit your idea
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today! It's an online event, so you can join from anywhere in
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Patrick Neeman's point that high wages and reduced hours are the
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necessary price of automation flips the usual efficiency
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narrative on its head. That sounds expensive, yet the thread
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about people waiting on rejections shows why we can't
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just optimize for speed. Speed without structure creates the
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brittle automation Dan Saffer warned against, where skipping
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task analysis leads to dangerous failures. But I worry that teams
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will skip that unsexy work anyway because the pressure to
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ship autonomous agents is already too high. And that's
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exactly why the shift to deep process control matters, not as
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a cost but as the only way to prevent those brittle failures.
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So the real opportunity isn't in building faster agents, but in
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training teams to map the messy human workflows before they ever
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touch code. If we treat workflow mapping as the new competitive
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advantage, we stop chasing the hype and start building systems
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that actually hold up. The teams that master that decomposition
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today will be the only ones shipping reliable AI tomorrow.
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That's The Feed and The Thread for today. We'll catch you next
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time!