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Notes by Adem Isler on software, products, design, artificial intelligence, and the systems around them.
2026
- The Best AI Products Do LessWhy the strongest AI products resist feature sprawl, narrow their job, and turn broad model capability into something reliable and useful.
- Local-First Is Not a Feature. It Is a Product Decision.Local-first is more than offline mode. It is an architectural choice about data ownership, authority, resilience, synchronization, and user control.
- Building Software Around Existing Systems Instead of Replacing ThemWhy companion products, translation layers, and incremental modernization often create more value than replacing the systems people already use.
- The Real Interface for AI Is Context, Not ChatWhy context, not an empty chat box, is the real interface of useful AI and what context engineering changes about product design.