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A daily field report on agentic web design — researched fresh, re-designed daily, written for working designers and developers.

Today · No. 002 · Frutiger Aero

Markdown is over. The agents prefer HTML.

Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar and Latent Space's swyx both shipped the same quiet pattern this week — skip the Markdown, generate the page. Plus Codex's 86M install spike, METR's 16-hour horizon, and an inference fix that 5× sped up Claude Code on long contexts.

Saturday · 09 May 2026 ≈ 7 min read Tooling · Technique · Workflow
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No. 00209 May 2026
Markdown is over. The agents prefer HTML.

Anthropic's HTML pivot, Codex's install curve, METR's 16-hour horizon, and a 5× inference fix.

Frutiger Aero
No. 00108 May 2026
Agents are shipping the web now.

One in three Vercel deploys this week was kicked off by a coding agent — up roughly tenfold in six months.

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Today's idiom: Frutiger Aero / Aqua-Era Web Type set in Outfit & Public Sans, with DM Serif Display italic. Updated 09 May 2026.

A field experiment from the team behind Beaver Builder.