Weekly Roundup - Sept 2, 2025
Design, engineering, and product seem like they’re continuing to meld into “problem solving” with no clear identity yet. “Prompt engineer” feels wrong and way under-scoped. Take a look at how Goose is building with agents and let me know what you think it is. And watch out for prompt engineering as a threat vector - that’s a real thing now.
Giving Up Design
The former Head of Product Design at Microsoft is re-inventing himself
An old article by AI industry standards, Suff Syed has quite a splash of a website, where he dramatically struck through his Head of Design title at the top of his homepage as he moves into AI research at Microsoft. Here’s his explanation, and if you want to dig deeper, I encourage you to read his 2023 Report on the Disintegration of Design.
Building with Goose
Creating with prompts, not code
I’ve been so impressed with Goose as a project, especially the recipe function. As I’ve dug into the recipes and needed to search for information (aside: what’s the “Google something” for Perplexity?), naming things continues to be one of the hardest things in software. I can tell you a bunch of great ways to cook a goose, still don’t know why it can’t find my sub-recipe… (it takes one extra search, I got there.)
Anyway… This is the pattern I’ve been following as I try to build new things. I feel late on a lot of this stuff (I think a lot of people do), but I’m starting to see the “Agent → DB” with no “application” in the middle make a lot of sense for my use cases. If you’re looking for a good way to evolve your stack, I’m sure
Prompt Injection
Mitigating threats from prompts, in the wild
This is the first real example I’ve seen of prompt injection in the wild. Tweet text below:
A popular NPM package got compromised, attackers updated it to run a post-install script that steals secrets
But the script is a prompt run by the user’s installation of Claude Code. This avoids it being detected by tools that analyze code for malware
You just got vibepwned
@zack_overflow 𝕏 tweet link
More next week!