Essays

Positions on the field, argued.

• Sep 25, 2026
  There is no third category

  Actions drive turns, context observes state, and every 'command' or 'behavior' field on a generative UI wire is a design smell. The placement rule that keeps a contract small, and the two things it refuses to decide.

• Aug 18, 2026
  The contract is the product

  Generative UI is not AI writing React. It is an agent describing a surface and a host rendering it under a contract — and the contract, not the code, is the part that matters.