I have a degree in electronic engineering, and I worked as an automation engineer before I moved into product design. Now I orchestrate AI agents to ship products. I’m not writing code. I’m not managing a big team. I’m directing a system that includes AI, people, and judgment about what matters.
Software is becoming cheaper and easier to build. What’s harder to find is the judgment around it: the context an agent needs, how fast the feedback comes back, and knowing when the agent is confidently wrong.
That’s the work I do as a product experience designer. It’s a new kind of technical career that merges a designer’s judgment with the power of AI agents, and it overlaps the work of product management and engineering. I wrote the short version in How I Write Code in 2026. This is the career version.
The signals I use are simple. If the agent is confidently wrong about domain logic, like how NIS2 evaluation criteria actually work, I step in. If it’s iterating on implementation details such as styling, refactoring, or test coverage, I let it run. Trust the AI on how. Verify on what and why.
I tackle every project from systems thinking. Electronics and automation gave me the habit. Product design for enterprise software, years of reporting products at Confirmit and Forsta, forced me to think about workflows, stakeholder needs, organizational systems, and what it means for something to actually stick in a complex environment. Agents don’t replace any of that. They remove the step I could never do myself: turning the system in my head into working code.
That mindset is what I use at Omny, translating between what security engineers need technically and what operators need in practice, then coordinating with engineers so the product is something people use because it makes their day easier. Cybersecurity has been a masterclass in judgment under high stakes and trust.
Working with agents follows the same pattern: understand the system, direct the intent, refine the output.
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Daniel Arevalo is Product Experience Lead at Omny Security. He builds AI-native tools and writes about design, product leadership, and what it means to direct systems that execute at a speed humans never had before.