Writing by Daniel Arevalo
Design, AI &
Product Thinking
Thoughts on design leadership, agentic systems, and building enterprise digital products for high-criticality operational environments.
Recent Posts
- Mar2026
Design Leadership Has Evolved
What changed about design leadership when AI agents started executing in hours what used to take teams weeks — and what had to be unlearned.
- Feb2026
The Death of Front-end Development
Front-end is dead and those are good news for everyone. The bottleneck that kept ideas trapped in non-technical heads just broke. It is not simply easier to work around. The barrier of entry to produce UI that is functional is gone.
- Jan2026
How I Write Code in 2026
Reflections on spending 1 billion tokens, the shift to 'vibe coding', and the new technical class of directing AI agents.
- Dec2025
Shipping at Inference-Speed
Why I stopped reading code and started watching it stream by.
- Aug2025
My Current AI Dev Workflow
Went fully back to Ghostty, VS Code on the side, and Claude Code as my main driver. Here's what actually works after months of experimentation.
- Jun2025
My AI Workflow for Understanding Any Codebase
A quick tip on how I use repo2txt and Google AI Studio to understand new codebases. Gemini's 1M token context window is perfect for asking questions about code.
- Jun2025
Claude Code is My Computer
I run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, giving it full system access. Let me show you a new way of approaching computers.
- Jun2025
The Future of Vibe Coding: Building with AI, Live and Unfiltered
I demonstrate 'vibe coding' - a new approach to software development with AI, building two apps from scratch in a 3-hour live workshop.