Meta Is Cutting 8,000 Jobs While Posting Record Profits. That’s the New Normal.

Meta Platforms reported $201 billion in revenue in 2025. Net income was a record. Free cash flow was a record. The stock closed the year at an all-time high.

On Thursday, the company announced it is laying off 8,000 people.

Those two things are not a contradiction anymore. They are the business model. — Read More

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HX Is The New UX: What You Need To Know About Harness Experience.

For thirty years, the central obsession of product design has been a single question: how do we make it easier for a human to click the right button? We built funnels. We A/B tested button colors. We agonized over empty states and loading spinners.

That era is ending — not gradually, but structurally.

… Agents don’t navigate UIs. They negotiate with systems. And when the agent is the primary “user” of software, the human behind it occupies an entirely different role — one for which we have almost no design vocabulary. Until now.

HX — Harness Experience — is the design discipline governing the interface between a human and their agentic fleet. — Read More

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