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Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
Design Engineering with Maggie Appleton
TPThe Pragmatic EngineerFull transcript
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Summary：GitHub Next's Maggie Appleton on design in the agent era: agents implement but cannot see, so paper planning survives; jigs generate live controls for probing variables; decisions become first-class objects. Capability gaslighting, tables as the final AI UI, and the coming agent-aesthetic tell.
Core points (3)
Core points (3)
- 1Agents consume text and cannot see, so paper remains the fastest way to plan interfaces.
- 2Her jig pattern generates live sliders and pickers for probing a design's uncertain variables.
- 3Decisions should be first-class objects: visual, owned, auditable, and fed back into agent context.