Insights + Future
Thinking out loud about AI and what comes next.
Perspectives on AI, technology, and the future, from the team at Tapiki.
The PR as the New Unit of Work
April 3, 2026
GitHub's new pull request dashboard isn't a better code review screen — it's a management console for the age of AI agents.
There's a scene in every heist movie where the crew splits up. Danny Ocean stands at the whiteboard, assigns the roles, draws the arrows, and says something confident and understated about meeting at the rendezvous point. Then the screen splits into four frames — the safecracker, the driver, the inside man, the distraction — all running their parts in parallel while Ocean watches from a quiet, elevated chair, sipping something expensive. Nobody in the audience is worried about Danny. He's not doing the work anymore. He's managing what comes back.
Read more →When Intents Matter More Than Apps
March 31, 2026
Apple is quietly building the orchestration layer that makes the app interaction pattern unnecessary.
In February, I wrote that the app model was collapsing, that the little grid of icons we've been swiping through since 2008 was dissolving into composable services orchestrated by AI through conversation. Apple, the company that invented the App Store, is quietly building the architecture that makes that entire interaction pattern unnecessary.
Read more →What Does This Make Possible?
March 28, 2026
Most people see a better tool. A few see a different world.
The machines didn't take over at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time on August 29, 1997. That's just when Skynet became self-aware. The real shift, the accumulation of capability, the crossing of thresholds nobody had marked on a calendar, happened quietly, in increments, while everyone was looking somewhere else. That's always how it happens.
Read more →Iteration Speed in the Age of AI
March 27, 2026
Design, copy, code, and deployment. One person. One terminal. Natural language.
There's a moment in every build, if you've done enough of them, you know the one, where the thing on the screen stops being a collection of components and starts being the thing. The layout clicks. The color breathes. The hierarchy makes sense the way a good sentence makes sense, where you couldn't move a word without breaking it. That moment used to take weeks to reach. Sometimes months. Now it takes about forty-five minutes.
Read more →You Don't Need an App for That
March 19, 2026
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says apps will disappear as AI agents take their place, confirming the thesis from the hardware side.
Last month, I wrote about the slow, inevitable collapse of the app model, how the capabilities we've been downloading as individual icons are dissolving into composable services that AI agents orchestrate through conversation. Yesterday, Carl Pei, the CEO of Nothing, the company that literally manufactures the glass rectangle in your pocket, said the same thing. From the hardware side.
Read more →Shopify's President Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
March 16, 2026
Shopify's president described AI shopping agents as a 'new front door' for e-commerce, confirming the shift away from the visual storefront.
A few days ago, I wrote about how websites are becoming the store window displays of the internet, beautiful, expensive to maintain, and increasingly irrelevant to how people actually find and choose businesses. Today, the second-largest e-commerce platform in the country said essentially the same thing. Shopify president Harley Finkelstein, speaking at this year's Upfront Summit, described AI shopping agents as a "new front door" for e-commerce.
Read more →Nobody's Walking Past Your Window Anymore
March 15, 2026
The store window was never the product. It was the attraction mechanism. And the attraction mechanism is shifting.
There's an art to a good window display. Anyone who's wandered past a department store in November knows the feeling, the miniature winter scene, the mannequins in next season's coats, the warm lighting that makes you slow down, lean in, maybe walk through the door. If you run a business with a website, this story should sound familiar. Because your website is a window display. And the foot traffic is about to move again.
Read more →Computational Thinking Was Always the Point
March 2, 2026
The skill we taught for code turns out to be the skill we need for everything that comes next
For the past four decades, there has been a recurring argument in education that goes something like this: everyone should learn to code. Not because everyone will become a software engineer, but because learning to code teaches you something deeper. That argument was right. It was just aimed at the wrong output. The skill was never really about code. It was about how you think.
Read more →Computer Use Speed Is the Wrong Metric
February 27, 2026
Why judging computer use agents by their speed is a trap, and where the real power lies
There is a moment, the first time you watch an AI agent control a browser, that feels almost comically slow. It navigates. It pauses. It reads. It clicks, deliberately, methodically, like someone who has never seen a mouse before. You're sitting there thinking: I could have done this in thirty seconds. And you're right. But that's completely beside the point.
Read more →WordPress Was Designed for Humans. We're Building for the Machines.
February 25, 2026
Why the 23-year-old CMS era is ending, and what replaces it
WordPress turned 23 years old this year. That's not a knock, it's a fact. And in technology, 23 years is an eternity. When WordPress launched, the goal was simple: give regular people the ability to publish content without knowing how to code. It worked. But the problem has changed, and so has the audience reading your website.
Read more →The Death of the Inbox
February 17, 2026
How email stops being a place you visit, and starts being a place AI lives
There's a ritual most of us perform dozens of times a day without thinking about it. We open our email. We scan. We feel a low-grade anxiety. We close it. We open it again twenty minutes later. The inbox became a to-do list we didn't design, managed by other people's priorities. That's about to change.
Read more →The Last App You'll Ever Download
February 10, 2026
On the coming collapse of the app model, and what replaces it
Remember the first time you downloaded an app? It felt like magic. Now look at your phone. How many of those icons do you actually use? The way we interact with digital services is about to change fundamentally, and the shift is already underway.
Read more →Having Siri on Wheels Will Be a Milestone in Human Travel
February 13, 2018
The convergence of autonomous vehicles and AI will fundamentally change how we move through the world
Change is painful, exciting, visceral, and necessary. And our commute is about to radically change. I see the convergence of autonomous vehicles and digital assistants. My autonomous vehicle will know me better than my cat, the physical manifestation of my digital assistant.
Read more →Students Need New Skill Sets to Exploit Artificial Intelligence
October 16, 2017
The future we can't predict is the one we have to prepare for
Each and every day brings exciting advances in AI as new, innovative ways to leverage it are discovered. These advances will fundamentally and permanently change humanity. For those of us in education, AI is nothing short of a positive, disruptive revolution.
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