Joe Prisk
Engineer who specialises in building thoughtful, scalable digital products that turn complex problems into simple, human-centred solutions.
Specialties
- Front-end Engineering,
- Design Systems
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What engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost
AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...
· 4 min readarticle
Why your design system is the most important input to Claude Code
Design systems are critical inputs for AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code because they constrain the AI’s micro-decisions around colours, spacing, and components – preventing "drift at speed" and ensuring generated UI remains consistent with your product’s visual language.
· 5 min read
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