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I (finally) fixed my AI coding problem

Ridd
February 05, 2026

By now you know that I’m pretty obsessed with growing as a builder this year 😅

So I asked Karl Koch from “Become a Design Engineer” to come on the show and share some practical tips for pushing past what AI gives you out of the box.

We go deep into:

Adopting the design engineering mindset
What the job market looks like for design engineers
The difference between frontend and design engineers
Specific language to create better interaction design
The details Karl is sweating in his role at Duck Duck Go
+ a lot more

Watch on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

🤝 WITH GRANOLA

You know what I’m excited about?

The Granola MCP 😏

It allows you to connect your AI tools directly to your Granola meeting notes. And as someone who has been vibe coding a lot of tools recently… this release is a big deal.

My meeting notes are some of the most valuable context I have and now I can find specific topics, pull out action items, and get any question answered based on my meeting history.

This is all available today and I’m already building with it like crazy.

Click the link if you want to get started 👇

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

I (finally) fixed my biggest problem with AI coding

I can crank out 10+ prototypes a day but somehow sharing my work is harder than its ever been.

The multiplayer canvas is gone.

Now it’s desktop folders, screen recordings, and PRs.

We’re back in the final_v4_updated era. Stephen from Paper nailed it in the AI Design Field Report:

“When you're using Claude Code or Cursor, we're actually now back in local space. It's more friction to share things again.”

Stephen Haney

Thankfully those days are over.

I have a new workflow for sharing AI prototypes and it's changing everything about how I design 👇

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

Recently Kyle Zantos showed us how he trained a UI motion design skill in the Designer’s Toolkit for Claude Code episode.

It’s basically a way to audit your animations through the eyes of three of his favorite design engineers.

It’s genius so I asked him if he’d be open to sharing the skill publicly and he agreed 👇

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

Claude Code tips from the creator

In an all-time “I can’t believe this app is free” moment, Boris Cherney (the creator of Claude Code) shared an epic set of tips sourced directly from the Claude Code team.

A few takeaways on my end:

I am somehow still radically underutilizing my claude.md file
I need to get more comfortable not micro-managing Claude. Sometimes leaving things more open-ended is best vs. nudging them down the route I think is best.
“After a mediocre fix, say: "Knowing everything you know now, scrap this and implement the elegant solution””
I need to enable the "Explanatory" or "Learning" output style in /config to have Claude explain the why behind its changes

Definitely bookmark this 👇

🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ Stripe’s card to modal transition

This would be a failure of a design newsletter if I didn’t lead this week’s inspiration juice with the new Stripe.com

There are some incredible details (hint: play with the gray dividing lines).

But the thing I most appreciated was the pattern of going from bento → modal.

It’s the reason they’re able to keep the page tidy and not rely on a bunch of subtext under each card heading.

Check it out →

2️⃣ Craft agents

Remember the episode on Craft about what it takes to design an award-winning product?

Well they just released a new product called Craft Agents and I’ve been following along closely and saving bits and pieces to my taste library.

Check it out →

3️⃣ Shop web drawer interaction

I freaking love this interaction from Taras (great follow on Twitter btw). I’m not sure I’ve seen this pattern for a nested drawer that blurs the sidebar behind it. Slick stuff 👌