· Kersten Lorenz
The design handoff is dying
Three new tools are collapsing the gap between design and code from different directions. The deeper shift isn't tooling — it's that agents need a shared design vocabulary to work at all.
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9 posts tagged "opinion"
· Kersten Lorenz
Design tokens: the API between design and code
Design systems fail when design and code drift apart. Design tokens fix the interface — a single source of truth that both sides can read, write, and ship from.
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The renaissance of Angular
Angular spent years as the framework people loved to leave. Then it quietly shed everything that made it heavy, added everything that makes it modern, and became the frontend framework best suited for the age of AI.
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Docs are fun again
Internal documentation used to rot the moment it was written. Now AI writes it, maintains it, and uses it as context — turning the oldest chore in software into a self-sustaining feedback loop.
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Calling LLMs stochastic parrots is not analysis
The parrot metaphor confuses mechanism with capability. Statistical process describes how a system works, not what it can do. The debate deserves better than a four-year-old animal comparison.
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Your AI agents are failing because you never onboarded them
Prompt engineering was the warm-up act. Context engineering — designing what information reaches the model, when, and in what structure — is the discipline that actually determines whether agents drift or compound.
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ORM sucks. What are your options?
The object-relational impedance mismatch is real, ORM query languages add complexity instead of removing it, and AI agents write better SQL than ORM code. Here are the alternatives.
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The Best Language for AI Agents Is Probably Not Your Favourite
When agents write and maintain API backends, the criteria shift. Developer happiness, expressiveness, and elegance matter less. Predictability, fast feedback, and low ambiguity matter more. The answer might surprise you.
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What AI-Native Actually Means — And Why It Matters
AI-native is not a marketing label. It describes a fundamentally different way to build software, run operations, and ship products. Here is what it looks like in practice.
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