AI is quietly renegotiating what it means to have a job — 65% of designers already use Claude Code, Boris Cherny asks whether "software engineer" still names the same role it did three years ago, and synthetic personas are now cheaper than focus groups. That, plus Ferrari’s hotly debated Luce, a useless plank, the Pope’s roast of AI, and our conversation about what makes a stellar PM.
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1. AI in Design Report 2026
AI in Design Report 2026: 900+ designers, 65% use Claude Code, roles blurring.
2. Claude Code’s creator on the end of the software engineer
What does it mean to ship a tool that can outpace the engineers who use it?The software engineer won't dissapear, but the day-to-day is shifting. A lot.
The pope joined the chat and in his latest encyclical, he argues AI's gains belong to all humanity. NOEMA unpacks the philosophical and political stakes with unusual clarity.
Listen to our conversation with Yann Thézénas, Senior Digital Projects Expert at FIBA, to learn why being a great project manager in 2026 has nothing to do with your tools or your framework, and everything to do with how you make people feel.
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