The Cost of
Design
AI can generate a pixel-perfect screen in seconds. It cannot tell you why the screen exists. The real cost of design was never the pixels. It was knowing which questions your users would ask before they asked them.
The Godfather of FUI
Mark Coleran designed the fictional interfaces that shaped how real technology looks today. He coined the term FUI, built screens for Bourne and Children of Men, and quietly influenced an entire industry. He died in June 2024. Most people never learned his name.
I'll Create a GUI Interface in Visual Basic
The CSI line every developer laughed at just became a viable workflow. AI turned the dumbest TV tech scene into a legitimate prototyping strategy.
Nobody Owns This Code
When a codebase is majority AI generated, the person who prompted it into existence has no legal claim to it. The licensing, the repo, the open source badge: theater.
Archive
6 transmissionsThe Last Screen You Own
AI video is crawling out of the uncanny valley. The question is not whether it gets there. The question is who controls the projector when it does.
AI Doesn't Design. It Decorates.
AI can one-shot a dashboard in seconds. The result looks polished, modern, familiar. It also answers nothing. The problem isn't the model. It's that we never had a design language worth translating.
Burning the Roots
Apprenticeship is how software used to survive. Not scale. Survive. AI now sits where the senior used to sit. It answers instantly, patches over confusion, fills the gaps before the junior even knows there was a gap. We are short circuiting the only path that ever produced judgment.
The Best Demo You Should Never Ship
OpenClaw is the best example we have of vibe coding working and why you should never ship vibe code at the same time. Nothing breaks decisively. It just degrades until reliance turns into regret.
Code You Cannot Explain Is Tomorrow's Debt
I do not let my son outsource thinking to a machine. He uses Claude Code to write C++ in Unreal Engine. That part is fine. What changed is how often the model started driving instead of assisting. So we put a PR process in place.
The Filter Is Broken
My son writes C++ that leaves me stunned. He still gets screened out by people who can barely parse their own script. The industry lost the ability to measure raw talent and replaced it with buzzword bingo.