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Field notes from building interfaces that AI composes.

1. 2026-11-10Field report No. 1: the plumbing settled, the consent layer didn'tThe first monthly letter from Interfaces for Humans. A2UI hit 1.0, OpenAI's Agent Builder shuts down on November 30, half of model-generated components ship a dark pattern, and one pattern to steal for approvals.field report · 4 min
2. 2026-11-08The model only proposesThe fake "sent" tick, the payment that fires before the dialog paints, the agent reasoning about a filter you already cleared — they're the same bug. A four-plane map for building generative UI that doesn't lie.essay · 8 min
3. 2026-11-07The state of generative UI, November 2026Generative UI went from demo to default this year. The protocols consolidated into plumbing, the SDKs churned, and the one layer nobody standardised is the one that decides whether people get hurt. A field report with dates.field report · 5 min