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title: "Writing"
author: Dan Birman
url: https://dbirman.com/writing
updated: 2026-11-10
summary: "Essays on AI agents that act for people, and on how I work."
---

# Writing

Essays on AI agents that act for people, and on how I work.

- Nov 2026[**What a DESIGN.md is worth to a coding agent**I measured how far two coding agents drift from a design system, and how much a DESIGN.md changes it.](https://dbirman.com/design-md)
- Oct 2026[**Progressive reduction, ten years later**In 2015 I argued interfaces should step back as people learn. Now the agent is the one learning.](https://dbirman.com/reduction)
- Sep 2026[**How I design with AI**What changed when most of my design work moved into code.](https://dbirman.com/design-with-ai)

The six [Agent Trust Patterns](https://dbirman.com/patterns) and the [Agent Trust Reviews](https://dbirman.com/reviews) have their own pages.