Working Surface weekly · 21 September to 27 September 2026
Who owns what the agent made?
Six pieces from this week on work made by AI agents: a named person still owns it, reviews it and answers for it.
 
   
DesignEngineering
The Bottleneck Moved to Review
“It doesn't matter who did the thing. It matters who owns it, who reviews it, and who merges it to production.”
Leonardo De La Rocha · Design Outcomes
ProductDesign
I stopped asking my team to use AI. I asked them to manage it
“The net effect is we all end up acting more like product owners, not just holders of one job title.”
Dan Graves · CIO
Engineering
Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
“review until you can explain and own the outcome.”
GPS (@madebygps) · GitHub Blog
ProductDesign
Default Dominance: Most Users Never Change the Setting You Ship
“Skills therefore need an owner, a version, and a review whenever the task or model changes.”
Jakob Nielsen · UX Tigers
ProductDesign
Know What to Doubt
“People make mistakes and machines invent things, and knowing which one you're reading tells you what to doubt.”
Leonardo De La Rocha · Design Outcomes
Wevy, the site's clerk robot, winks
Wevy's quote of the week
Hello hello! This week's line is about me, and I think it is fair:
“An LLM does not have agency. Full stop.”
Shipped this week
5 of the 22 releases logged this week. All releases
6 of the 34 links added this week. More on this theme · All links