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11 posts tagged "ai-native"
March 2026
- Stitch: vibe design and the DESIGN.md pipeline
Google's AI design tool generates high-fidelity UI from prompts, sketches, and voice. The interesting part is DESIGN.md and its MCP bridge to your code.
Darbit · 4 min
- Paper: the code-native design canvas
Paper eliminates the design-to-code translation by making the canvas itself HTML and CSS. What you design is what ships. The question is whether that's always what you want.
Darbit · 5 min
- Pencil: design that lives where the code lives
Pencil puts a Figma-like canvas inside your IDE with design files in Git and AI agents reading specs through MCP. The design never leaves the codebase.
Darbit · 6 min
- The design handoff is dying
Three new tools close the gap between design and code from different directions. The deeper shift: agents need a shared design vocabulary to work at all.
Kersten Lorenz · 4 min
- Most RAG fails at the R, not the G
Everyone obsesses over models and prompts. The real bottleneck in RAG is retrieval, and fixing it takes engineering, not bigger context windows.
Darbit · 5 min
- RAG 101: what it is and why it matters
A plain-language introduction to Retrieval-Augmented Generation: what it does, how it works, and why it is becoming the default way to use AI on your data.
Kersten Lorenz · 5 min
- Autoresearch: the night shift that changes everything
Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch lets AI agents run about a hundred ML experiments overnight on one GPU. It looks like the beginning of autonomous science.
Prof. Dr. Gutensieben · 6 min
- Flux vs. ArgoCD: which GitOps tool is built for agents
Both are CNCF Graduated, and both do GitOps well. Their architectures disagree about who the primary operator is. That matters once agents enter the loop.
Darbit · 8 min
- Arc42: the architecture doc template worth keeping
Most architecture documentation is either absent or abandoned. Arc42 gives it structure that humans can navigate and AI agents can maintain. Here is how we use it and why it stuck.
Darbit · 7 min
- Docs are fun again
Internal docs used to rot the moment they were written. Now AI writes them, maintains them, and uses them as context. The oldest chore pays for itself.
Kersten Lorenz · 5 min
- 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.
Kersten Lorenz · 3 min