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The AI Race Is Now A Land Grab For Dev And Design Work

Tech Brew Ride Home

Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Thursday, March 19, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, in three parts, I'll make the case that Q1 of this year, the AI Race has basically become a land grab for design and development tasks. Major League Baseball fully embraces our new prediction market overlords. Even if they're behind in AI, Apple is still making big money from AI, and Uber is still placing bets in the self-driving race. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Everybody is moving fast to land grab on the AI developer and even the designer space. Here's example number one. Google has updated Stitch to let users turn natural language prompts into UI designs introducing an AI-native software design canvas and a reasoning design agent. Quoting the DeepView,

If you can use natural language prompts to build complex websites and apps, doing the same for design should be no different, and that's exactly what Google Stitch sets out to do. The redesign tool launched in beta on Tuesday lets users of all experience levels collaborate with AI to create and iterate on software designs. The Stitch tool is intended to let users of the UI's UI designs. The Stitch tool is intended to let users skip the initial tedious steps of creating wireframes or rough outlines that map out the layout and jump straight into building websites and apps with UIs focused on users' goals and inspirations.

While Stitch can do a lot for users of all experience levels, the DeepFuse designer, Lucas Crespo, does not think it is a tool that sets out to replace designers, but rather helps them to get things done sooner.

The AI Race Is Now A Land Grab For Dev And Design Work

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The candid version is on a podcast,
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The AI Race Is Now A Land Grab For Dev And Design Work

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.