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Friday, October 9, 2026

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Technology

ttok 0.4

Release: ttok 0.4 ttok is my CLI tool for counting tokens, using OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. It hasn't been in updated in a couple of years, but I finally fixed a Click warning, updated CI, and added a --list-models command to list available…

Simon Willison
Tools

AI-generated UI is fast design, not UX

The call for problem discovery, the freedom and wander, and craft in the age of AI I grew up surrounded by 17th- and 18th-century architecture my stepfather salvaged from around the world. My mother had a knack for convincing him to put some of his salvaged…

UX Collective Sophie Shrimpton
Technology

Are synthetic users (really) the future of UX research?

Human-centered design demands a limited use of AI-generated personas, if at all A big debate among UX researchers is whether to use synthetic users in their studies. There’s one group of researchers who consider it no less than an abomination, unethical to…

UX Collective Arin Bhowmick