What is the trickle test?
Humans& trained a model to act like a person instead of a helpful assistant, and their evals for it — group chats, and a "trickle test" for whether a model reveals facts at a human pace — are worth a look.
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Humans& trained a model to act like a person instead of a helpful assistant, and their evals for it — group chats, and a "trickle test" for whether a model reveals facts at a human pace — are worth a look.
Read more →Context Design joins context engineering and alignment research with human-centered design and sociology, a new practice for building AI systems that work for people, not just models.
Read more →Teams are working with agents, agents need context, and context gets messy fast. Let's call it context architecture.
Read more →Models are weird, and it's worth digging a little deeper to build a useful mental model of their weirdness.
Read more →Who we build for and why they would pay: the personas, the three layers of what customers want to see, and the UX principles behind Sputnik Intelligence.
Read more →UX context for agents, living alongside design.md
Read more →.. but let's pick the right fight
Read more →Bell Labs' "Member of Technical Staff" title, the new wave of AI-era design role names, and this week's UX/AI links.
Read more →A new Oxford/Stanford/LSE/UK AISI study finds AI more persuasive than expert human debaters, plus this week's UX/AI links.
Read more →Generative, agent-driven UI (Google's A2UI protocol) as a new context-design problem, plus this week's UX/AI links.
Read more →Anthropic launched Fable 5 on Tuesday and switched it off by Friday. The recall is a story — but the real question is why these models keep getting so good, so fast.
Read more →Wait is AI conscious yet?
Read more →But we got CoPilot!
Read more →and it changes how they behave.
Read more →And everyone needs time to think
Read more →And it doesn't care what your job title is.
Read more →UX is both dead and matters more than ever.
Read more →AI is happening. It needs UX and product. The only way to join the party is to re-focus on our core value and skills, and leave the artifacts, processes and tools we've built over the past 20 years behind.
Read more →AI is happening. Agents are happening. And you will be ok.
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