AI Design, Intel Layoffs, Losing Creativity, and the Case for Lunch
Weekly Review of News in Technology, UX and AI
Here’s the latest news, resources, and use cases from the world of product, UX, AI and technology. Let’s go:
📊 Unstructured Data
🖊️ AI Design
💎 Opal
✈️ Intel Layoffs
🫥 ChatGPT Making us Stupid
🥪 The Case for Lunch
👺 Smells
Podcast
Structured Thinking for Unstructured Data: A Conversation with Founder Kirk Marple
In this episode of Product by Design, Kyle is joined by Kirk Marple, founder and CEO of Graphlit, to explore the world of unstructured data and how it’s transforming with the rise of LLMs and AI-native tools. Kirk shares his journey from working at Microsoft and General Motors to building Graflit—a platform designed to make unstructured data as usable as structured data.
News and Useful Reads
Design Patterns For AI Interfaces
As AI becomes more prominent in all the products and features we build, it’s critical we thoughtfully design how users interact with it.
One of the key recent shifts is a slow move away from traditional “chat-alike” AI interfaces. As Luke Wroblewski wrote, when agents can use multiple tools, call other agents and run in the background, users orchestrate AI work more — there’s a lot less chatting back and forth.
Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal
AI coding is becoming more ubiquitous each day. Google is entering the fray with their own version: Opal.
Google’s now become the latest to hop on this bandwagon: The company is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal, available to users in the U.S. through Google Labs, which the company uses as a base to experiment with new tech.
Intel to cut 25,000 jobs and enforce office return
Intel will be cutting about 15% of its workforce this year. And forcing employees back to the office.
Intel will cut approximately 25,000 jobs by the end of 2025 as part of a sweeping cost-cutting effort under new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who is aiming to reshape the struggling Bay Area chipmaker into a leaner, more competitive enterprise.
Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
I’m frequently concerned about this—that ChatGPT and other tools may actually hurt our critical thinking. They are a shortcut, and can be quicker, but are dangerous without the ability to critically analyze their output. And what happens when we stop exercising that ability?
Fast-forward to today, and an even more profound technological shift is taking place. With the rise of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, internet users aren’t just outsourcing memory – they may be outsourcing thinking itself.
Other Interesting Finds
The Case for Lunch
Is lunch the most underappreciated meal? Probably. And too often, for many of us, it is a sad meal eaten at a desk between meetings.
A lunch can be quick and convenient: tomato soup, grilled cheese, poke bowl, burrito, tuna salad, leftover pad kee mao, or office-microwaved miso salmon. Or it can serve as a redoubt of leisure and even decadence in an ever-optimizing world: the simmering Sunday ragù, the midday Martini, the vacation table laid at two o’clock and not abandoned until the heat fades.
The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.