Designing for the proxy

AI is changing the design audience, as digital experiences now often interact with machines, like language models, before reaching human users.

UX Collective

7 min read

In this edition

Stories from Monday, 3 August 2026

Import AI

Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Researchers built a self-sustaining AI virus that uses large language models to compromise computers and infect more hosts.

Website Inspiration: Aspen Search

Aspen Search connects engineering and research talent with quantitative trading firms through their one-page website.

3 Aug

Lenny's Newsletter

Product

ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)

Nick Baumann demonstrates ChatGPT Codex Voice and its features, including screen reading and background tasks.

3 Aug3 min read

NNGroup (YT)

Video

You Can't Fake Product Sense

Product sense, an intuitive understanding of user needs and market dynamics, cannot be artificially developed or acquired through shortcuts, according to this analysis.

2 Aug

UX Collective

Thinking

Perplexity diverges with color

Perplexity, a text-based generative AI model, can serve as a color suggestion tool for building diverging color schemes in data visualizations, requiring user modification of Hex code suggestions.

1 Aug7 min read

UX Collective

Thinking

Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center

Creative technologists are increasingly central to product teams, bridging design, code, systems, and storytelling as AI reduces the gap between ideas and implementation.

1 Aug13 min read

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Whatnot's CPO, Tom Verrilli, discusses his company's founding premise that product management's existence is regrettable, how AI is reshaping the PM role, and what he seeks in new hires.