Agents are moving from “answer questions” to “do work”: filing tickets, changing settings, running scripts, editing content, deploying changes. That shift is less about model quality and more about agency—the ability to take actions in real systems. The catch is simple: the moment an agent can act, you inherit the failure modes of automation and the ambiguity of language. “Human-in-the-loop” isn’t a conservative stance. It’s how you ship...

AI can absolutely help you write UI tests faster. The trap is thinking the “writing” part is the hard part. In practice, most UI test suites fail for the same reasons: brittle selectors, non-deterministic data, leaky environment state, and tests that don’t actually prove the user outcome. AI can speed up all of that too—but only if you use it inside a workflow that’s grounded in real fixtures, intentional mocks, and predictable data seeding....

Loading is a UX surface. People don’t rage at “waiting” as much as they rage at uncertainty. If you want your UI to feel calm, fast, and expensive, pick the loading pattern that answers the user’s real question in that moment: Did it register? Is it working? Am I safe to keep going? The 4-variable decision (use this every time) Duration: instant, short, long Predictability: do we know what will show up (shape) and ro...

Here's a scenario  lot of us developers find ourselves in: you built your amazing static site. And when it came to deciding on your build tool you chose Grunt,  because it simplifies the build process. Everybody else uses it, and there's a reason: it works wonders. Everything is set: jit-grunt - read our[ jit-grunt guide here](https://inspire.blufra.me/speed-up-your-entire-grunt-buil...

Bootstrap 4 is in alpha release and has a brand new set of media queries and breakpoints. Where Bootstrap 3 had them in pixels, the new release of the popular responsive framework boasts breakpoints in ems. Let's harness the power of these new media queries to serve an image of the right size based on the device a user views our site on. We're going to save a lot of bandwidth for the small devices...