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Designer outlines three principles for staying relevant amid rapid AI tool releases

A designer's essay argues that core design practices—iteration, gathering feedback, and connecting disparate ideas—remain essential regardless of how advanced AI tools become. The piece responds to growing anxiety among designers, engineers, researchers, and product professionals who feel threatened by weekly releases of new AI tools that appear to automate parts of their work.

fastcompany.com · 2026-10-27

Blog post details idiomatic C pattern for safely iterating backwards with unsigned indices

Developer David Priver published a post explaining common mistakes programmers make when writing backward loops over unsigned size_t counters in C, including tautological comparisons and signed-integer workarounds that introduce portability or truncation issues. He presents an alternative idiom, 'for (size_t i = count; i--; )', which uses the postdecrement operator to keep the index in bounds and relies on well-defined unsigned wraparound behavior in C to terminate the loop safely.

davidpriver.com · 2026-10-26