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Same Same but Different: The Anatomy of AI Design Sameness

Hand an agent your art direction and it still builds the page everyone else got. That is not a taste problem, it is a statistics problem. A look at the history of design convergence, the research that explains why prompts cannot escape it, and the levers that actually steer back toward identity.

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Autopilot: Claude as a Self-Directed Intern

May 31, 2026

Sascha Becker

Autopilot: Claude as a Self-Directed Intern

Most of the time you spend with an AI coding agent, you are the bottleneck: it does one thing, then stops and waits for you. Autopilot is a skill that takes you out of that seat. The agent picks the work, does it, verifies it, commits it, and picks the next thing, while you review the stream of commits on your own schedule. Here is how it works, why it is safe to leave running, and why it does not just bury you in busywork.

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May 28, 2026

Sascha Becker

A web app that thinks it's a desktop

What changes in a React app when you stop treating it like a webpage and start treating it like a desktop environment: windows, a dock, a shared 3D canvas.

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The Flight Protocol Made Your DoS My Problem

May 19, 2026

Sascha Becker

The Flight Protocol Made Your DoS My Problem

On May 6, 2026, React and Next.js patched twelve vulnerabilities. One of them, CVE-2026-23870, is a single HTTP request that pins your Node process. The bug isn't the bug. The bug is that the framework boundary was a network boundary all along.

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May 12, 2026

Sascha Becker

The pull_request_target Trap

How a known-dangerous GitHub Actions pattern keeps compromising npm packages. The TanStack incident, the prior cases, and the checklist that actually prevents it.

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May 11, 2026

Sascha Becker

Questions Before Pixels

A short handbook for UX in 2026. The bar for "looks good" is now zero. The work that's left is the questioning, before any pixel is drawn.

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Six Models, One React Stack: Why Every LLM Builds the Same App

May 4, 2026

Sascha Becker

Six Models, One React Stack: Why Every LLM Builds the Same App

Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, v0, Lovable, Bolt. Ask any of them to build a React app and you get the same answer: Next.js or Vite, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui. A look at the convergence, why it's happening, what we lose, and how to steer your way out of it.

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Apr 24, 2026

Sascha Becker

Stories, Not Braindumps

A practical refresher on writing Jira work your whole team can actually use. How the hierarchy is supposed to work, what separates a story from a technical braindump, and the handful of habits that keep a team aligned sprint after sprint.

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Hannover Messe 2026: When 'AI' Finally Stopped Being a Sticker

Apr 22, 2026

Sascha Becker

Hannover Messe 2026: When 'AI' Finally Stopped Being a Sticker

For three years, AI at Hannover Messe felt like a costume. Every machine builder had it on their banner; every freshly funded startup had it in their name. 2026 reads differently. Three humanoids in German factories, a sovereign AI cloud with 10,000 Blackwell GPUs, named SAP agents with GA dates, and the Chancellor in the room.

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The React Compiler at Eighteen Months: The Arc, the Debates, and What's Next

Apr 22, 2026

Sascha Becker

The React Compiler at Eighteen Months: The Arc, the Debates, and What's Next

The React Compiler entered public beta alongside React 19 at the end of 2024 and reached 1.0 in October 2025. Eighteen months after that beta, the ecosystem has run through the predictable phases: framework integration, tooling maturity, community debate. A retrospective and what the React team has signaled comes next.

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