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9 posts tagged "opinion"
March 2026
- 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
- Design tokens: the API between design and code
Design systems fail when design and code drift apart. Design tokens fix the interface: one source of truth that both sides can read, write, and ship from.
Kersten Lorenz · 5 min
- 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.
Kersten Lorenz · 5 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
- 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 five-year-old animal comparison.
Kersten Lorenz · 4 min
- Your AI agents are failing because you never onboarded them
Prompt engineering was the warm-up act. Context engineering decides what reaches the model, when, and how. That is what makes agents drift or compound.
Kersten Lorenz · 4 min
- 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.
Kersten Lorenz · 5 min
- The Best Language for AI Agents Is Probably Not Your Favourite
When agents write and maintain API backends, the criteria shift: predictability, fast feedback and low ambiguity beat elegance. That points to Go.
Kersten Lorenz · 6 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