This newsletter highlights Microsoft’s new MAI-Image-2.5 model and Apple’s upgraded Image Playground, then breaks down Lovable’s self-reported growth metrics. It also links to design essays on embracing human flaws, writing decisions before mockups, and moving from rigid design systems to product context, plus a roundup of tools and case studies.

This issue highlights five shifts in AI-driven software engineering from Cursor’s Developer Habits Report, along with SpaceX’s record $75 billion IPO and Jeff Bezos’s new startup Prometheus aiming to build an “artificial general engineer.” It also covers advances in vertical AI agents, NASA’s improved Deep Space Network for Artemis II, cute home robots by Familiar Machines, Homebrew 6.0.0 updates, and perspectives on AI’s limits in replacing developers.