June 2026
No canvas as source of truth
A repo-first thesis for agentic product systems: the repo is the source of truth, the agent is the operator, and UI is a preview/control surface
Source of truth Design systems
From specialist skills to working systems
Post-AI leverage moves from owning a narrow skill to encoding, combining, testing, and improving expertise inside working systems
Systems thinking Working systems
The output is only as deep as the context
A shallow prompt produces shallow output because selected context is already part of the creative act
Context Creativity
User understanding is less role-gated now
AI does not replace empathy, but it changes the work around empathy and makes user understanding less role-gated
Product design User research
Your AI workflow is not the product
AI workflows are local operating systems, not universal proof of value; outcomes and coordination compression remain the serious tests
Workflows Product outcomes
Design is the decision, not the artifact
When implementation gets cheaper, design value moves from intermediate artifacts to decisions tested against reality
Product design Software economics
From documentation to executable context
Knowledge artifacts may evolve from human-readable documentation into agent-usable execution context
Executable context Memory
What happens when implementation stops being the bottleneck?
When building becomes cheap, judgment and selection become the scarce resources
Software economics Decision making