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User-centred design in the age of AI.

3 Aug 2026

Your Users may not be Human

In June 2026 Cloudflare confirmed machines now generate more web traffic than people. Every one of those visits is a user nobody has watched, and nobody can ask why. What does user-centred mean in this new age of AI?

Michael Parker9 min readagentic web / user research / AI agents

24 Jun 2026

Michael Parker

4 min read

Building with Supabase

How we run a multi-tenant AI agent platform on Supabase: row level security for tenant isolation, OAuth and passkeys for humans and machines, pgvector for agent RAG, read replicas for global reads, and preview branches for every pull request.

Michael Parker4 min readengineering / supabase / postgres

16 Jun 2026

Michael Parker

3 min read

What Is MCP and Why It Matters for Product Teams

The Model Context Protocol lets AI assistants call tools in external services. For product teams, that means testing, feedback, and issue tracking without leaving your editor.

Michael Parker3 min readMCP / product teams / developer tools

2 Jun 2026

Michael Parker

4 min read

Building a Self-Healing Product Feedback Loop

Turn error signals and feedback into almost instant product improvements with triage and cloud coding agents.

Michael Parker4 min readengineering / agents / claude-code

28 May 2026

Michael Parker

1 min read

For Humans & Their Machines

User-centred design in a world with AI agents.

Michael Parker1 min readdesign / AI agents / user-centred design