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How products are being built, now
2026 · six chapters · field research
A year of watching developers work with AI agents — cursor, claude code, cline, codex, aider, all the others — and mapping where the craft breaks. Not a product pitch. A point of view.
Every chapter stands on its own. Read them in order for the arc, or jump to the one you came for.
Ch.TitleFile
- 01The fragmentation problemwhy parallel AI agents break existing dev workflowsfragmentation.mdx
- 02The tools in playhonest map of what exists, where each falls shortlandscape.mdx
- 03Designing for agents, not humanssix UX patterns when the primary actor is an agentagentic-ux.mdx
- 04Memory as a product surfacewhy context files don't scale, what doesmemory.mdx
- 05Isolation — the unsolved plumbingports, cookies, auth when five agents run in parallelisolation.mdx
- 06Where the wedge ismarket gaps and what a new product could ownwedge.mdx
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