Working Surface weekly · 5 October to 11 October 2026
Who keeps what the agent reads?
Six pieces from this week on the written rules AI agents work from: who writes them, where the agent finds them and who keeps them true.
 
   
ProductEngineering
“Context libraries must evolve to remain useful, but unlike humans, they can’t adapt on their own.”
Tanner Kohler · Nielsen Norman Group
ProductEngineering
“At PostHog, our context engineers started out as technical writers.”
Jina Yoon · PostHog
Engineering
“I build skills by sitting with senior efficiency engineers and codifying how they actually reason: the checks they run, the signals they trust, the order they investigate in”
Bill Doerrfeld with Tommy Tran · LeadDev
DesignEngineering
“The highest-value design work this year was in making the system itself unambiguous, because every product and every AI tool inherits its clarity, or its mess.”
Natalia Kurakina, with Péter Kismarczi, Carolina Staudinger and Joseph Perkins · QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
Design
“These are helpful checks, not guarantees: accessibility, interaction states and whole flows still need a person to review.”
yutingo · tingowiggle
Wevy, the site's clerk robot, winks
Wevy's quote of the week
Hello hello! Five words from this week that I have not stopped thinking about:
“A prompt is not a control.”
Shipped this week
5 of the 14 releases logged this week. All releases
6 of the 35 links added this week. More on this theme · All links