“Design and engineering are one job”
The best products come from collapsing the design–engineering handoff. I prototype in code, design in the browser, and ship the thing I designed — no telephone game between disciplines.
Philosophy
How I think about this work.
“Agentic UX is about legibility, not magic”
An agent that perceives, reasons, and acts is only useful if people can see what it's doing and stay in control. The interface is where trust is won or lost.
“Craft is a feature”
Every pixel, interaction, and line of code is intentional. Polish isn't decoration — it's how a product earns a user's confidence.
“Ship, then learn”
Perfect is the enemy of shipped. I'd rather put something real in front of users this week and iterate than polish in private for a month.
“Own the outcome, not the ticket”
Strong product sense plus high ownership. I care about the result for the user and the business — talking to customers, shaping scope, and following the work to production.
On the market
The interface is the moat for AI products
Models are commoditizing fast. The durable advantage is the interaction layer: how an agent's reasoning is made legible, how humans stay in the loop, how trust is built. Most teams underinvest in exactly the part users feel.
B2B agents win on control, not autonomy
Enterprises don't want a black box that 'just does it.' They want an agent they can watch, correct, and trust. The teams shipping explainable, interruptible agentic UX will beat the ones chasing full autonomy.
The Founding Product Engineer is the 0→1 unlock
Early-stage products reward people who can talk to customers, design the thing, and ship it to production. One person owning that loop moves faster than three specialists trading handoffs.