📡 Radar — 18 Sep 2026

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📡 18 Sep 2026

🛠️ AI Development

• News

  Anthropic: Claude now leads 25%+ of the R&D building its successor

  Washington Post: Anthropic says Claude now drives over a quarter of the R&D on its own successor — a striking self-improvement claim, but the company's own framing, not an independent audit.

🎨 AI Design & UX

• Post

  Designers are becoming builders: from Figma to real code at Rain

  A Head of Design's first-hand account of going from ~90% Figma to a 60/40 split with production branches and live prototypes — concrete, though one team's experience rather than a general rule.

  via @MasoudByDesign ↗
• Post

  AI is bad at design (even Claude beats GPT)

  A well-known engineer-designer argues today's models still fumble the fine-grained UI calls that make or break an interface — a grounded counterweight to the 'AI designs now' hype.

  via @diegohaz ↗