Category: Artificial Intelligence
Fall in Love with the Problem
AI has created more change than most of us have seen in our careers. New companies and products are launching at a remarkable pace. Conversational interfaces and agentic workflows have opened up entirely new ways to solve problems (our own Chad Michel recently wrote a book on it, From Buttons to Conversations). AI-native startups are…
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Synthetic Users as a Design Tool
Every designer knows the moment when you’ve gotten too close to your own work. You’ve been in the same flow for days, you’ve run it past everyone within arm’s reach, and somewhere along the way you started designing for yourself instead of for the person who’ll actually use it. I hit that wall on a…
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Running OpenAI’s Codex CLI Locally with Ollama
I like knowing what’s happening on my machine. When I use a tool, I want to understand what it’s doing, where my code is going, and what I’m paying for. That’s why I spent some time getting OpenAI’s Codex CLI running locally through Ollama, and I think you should try it too. Codex CLI is OpenAI’s…
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Policies Don’t Lead
Over the past year, we’ve spent a lot of time helping organizations figure out what AI actually means for their business. We’ve also been doing the same work ourselves inside Don’t Panic Labs. Along the way, something has become increasingly obvious to me. Almost everyone starts in the same place. Someone asks Legal to draft…
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The Interface Is Dissolving
For twenty years, the job was the same. A person points, clicks, types, and navigates to a result, and we design every step of that path. Software waits. The human is the engine. Agents break that. When software can understand what you want and act on its own to get there, the interface stops being…
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Building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, Part 8: Sketch-First UI Design
In Part 7, I walked through the UX Design Tool we built into What is Done — one that spins up a full Angular + PrimeNG app in about 10 seconds. That tool is great when you need a working skeleton fast. But sometimes you don’t need a full framework. Sometimes you just want to…
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GitHub Squad: Your AI Dev Team Living Inside the Repo
We are rapidly moving to a world where multiple agents are the default pattern for many tasks. Each agent has its own agenda, expertise, and perspective — and together they collaborate to solve complex problems faster and more reliably than a single model ever could. Why not just stuff everything into a bigger context window…
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Tokens Are the Unit
Disclaimer: What follows was true as of 6/3/2026. Considering the speed at which the AI space is moving, the dollars referenced below will change. “What’s this going to cost per month?” Now that I sit in the CTO seat, I understand why that answer matters. It is not a curiosity question. It is a staffing,…
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Building with the GitHub Copilot SDK, Part 7: A UX Design Tool That Actually Keeps Up
Every developer has been there. You have an idea for a layout, maybe a dashboard or a data-heavy form, and you just want to see it. Not tomorrow. Not after you wire up a backend. Right now. But the gap between the picture in your head and something running in a browser always seems to…
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Zero Gravity Prototyping with Google Antigravity
The hardest part of prototyping a new feature isn’t the idea. It’s the wait. You have a product owner with a vision. You have a designer with mockups. And you have a backend that isn’t ready yet. In a traditional workflow, the frontend sits idle until the API exists. That wait kills momentum, and momentum…
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