🏠 Design systems just got a major AI glowup

GM! It's Brett. Last week I wrote about Anthropic vs Figma and why the real battle isn't about replacing designers — it's about who owns the workflow. The response was wild. So I'm doubling down.

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Here's the thing: design isn't going anywhere. But the way you design is about to change completely.

I broke down my top 1% landing page process last week (8 prompts, from research to execution). But the real insight isn't the prompts — it's the workflow. You're not asking AI to design. You're asking it to compress research, eliminate busywork, and let you focus on the creative decisions that actually matter.

This week I found a video that nails exactly what I mean. UI Collective just dropped a 31-minute walkthrough on AI + Design Systems in 2026: The Workflow I Actually Use.

The creator walks through:

The key moment: 7:30 — he shows how he actually uses AI in his day-to-day. It's Figma + Cursor MCP setup. Shows how designers aren’t going to be out of jobs actually. They’ll be enhanced.

Then 9:12 — generating design system documentation. The thing that takes hours and nobody wants to do. AI handles it. You review it. You ship it. That’s it.

This is the future of design. Not "AI designs." Much like we dropped the e or .com for internet companies, design of the future is still design even if its “AI design” today. It's "AI handles the grunt work, designers make the calls" design.

Watch it. Send it to your design team. This is the conversation you should be having.

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This week I had an essay go viral about the future of work. The central idea: as AI gets smarter, your job stops being to do the work or even make decisions.

It becomes giving AI as much context as possible so it can. I called this the Context Farmer, and the essay traced how we get from "you do the work yourself" all the way to "you tend the brain, AI runs the business." Like a farmer who doesn't grow the fruit — they just make the conditions right.

The backdrop is a new kind of company I've been calling the Agentic Micro Company. Tiny human teams. Massive agent teams. Powered by a single "company brain" that aggregates all your context — emails, meetings, decisions, docs — so agents have everything they need.

The founders I know building this way are doing zero to tens of millions in revenue, in months, with headcounts you'd expect at a seed-stage startup. It's Founder Mode, but with 1,000 AI employees that never sleep.

The trillion-dollar opportunity isn't the agents or models. It's the context layer beneath it all.

Give it a read here.

Four things on my mind this week:

Sergio just dropped the hottest take on X this week: designers who level up with AI will crush it, designers who don't are cooked.

We've got a CAFÉ PORTRAIT this week. AI generated?

Last week's poll: If you guessed the wolf weren't AI generated…. you were right.

🟩 🟩 ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yeah it's AI (~31%)

🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 ⬜️ Nope it's real (~69%)

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