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Essay series

Thoughtful interfaces

Software was a destination for twenty years. Now the work arrives where you already are, inside the agent. That one shift rewires enterprise buying, deployment, architecture, product execution, UX, and roles. Nine essays, one argument.

Nine essays. New posts Tuesday and Thursday, July 14 to August 11, 2026.
01
The interface is moving
Software stops being a destination. Work arrives where you already are.
Coming Jul 14
02
Intelligence spend is the new cloud spend
The procurement gravity that shaped cloud buying is forming around intelligence. Bring-your-own-inference becomes an RFP checkbox.
Coming Jul 16
03
Frontier or on-prem is the wrong first question
The first question is where work is allowed to happen, not which model is smartest.
Coming Jul 21
04
Marry the harness, not the model
Models get swapped under you. The durable asset is the harness: tools, context, evals, permissions.
Coming Jul 23
05
Your users may never see your UI again
Connectors make every system headless. The assistant is the new front door.
Coming Jul 28
06
When the agent is your user
Capability and contract first, screens after. The API surface is the product.
Coming Jul 30
07
UX is relocating, it is not going away
Design moves to the handoff and the check-in. The review moment is the product.
Coming Aug 4
08
Where the people go
Roles redistribute, they do not disappear. Own outcomes, not artifacts.
Coming Aug 6
09
What I'd do Monday morning
The operator checklist: procurement posture, one harness with evals, one workflow brought to the user, a designer on the checkpoint.
Coming Aug 11
Related: The 3-phase enterprise AI adoption playbook, the method behind the rollout these essays keep referencing.