Field notes
Notes on platforms, AI, and engineering leadership.
The arguments Diogo Esteves keeps making about frontend platforms, AI-native UX, and leadership.
Nothing is published here yet. What follows is what I would write about — the arguments I keep making in RFCs, design reviews, and hiring conversations after eleven years of platform work.
Platform
Design systems that survive their founders
What makes a component library outlast the product line — and the people — it was born with.
AI
Agentic UX, honestly
What breaks when LLM workflows meet real users, and the human-in-the-loop patterns that hold.
Leadership
From IC to VPE and back
What changes — and what doesn't — when you move between engineering altitudes in eighteen months.
Strategy
The frontend is the product
Why treating the UI as a thin layer over an API is how good products quietly die.