Maggie Appleton
AI x design
Design engineer writing on AI interfaces, tools for thought, and the design of agentic software.
Recent activity
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In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors
A delayed education on the trenches and scales of suffering
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One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment
Why we need collaborative AI engineering and a tour of Ace: the multiplayer coding workspace
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Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions
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Vibe Code is Legacy Code
Vibe code is legacy code by Steve Krouse
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Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born?
A tiny tool to calculate when your baby might arrive
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ChatGPT Would be a Decent Policy Advisor
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice by Chris Stokel-Walker for the New Scientist
Read more → - March 2025 Read more →