IIIMPACT Design

IIIMPACT Design IIIMPACT is a digital product design and development agency

We have, what I call our “UX SWAT” team, which consists of multi-talented experts in Visual Design, User Experience, SEO and Front End Development. We help companies continuously improve the UX of their Enterprise applications, mobile apps and websites and integrate User-centered design processes/strategy for agile software development teams. This includes everything from Lean Usability testing (r

emote and in-person), wireframes and responsive prototyping, visual design, to front-end and back-end coding.

05/29/2026

Large language models are backward-looking by design. They train entirely on historical data. They do not invent. They synthesize what already exists.

When you rely on an AI model for product strategy or creative direction, you are generating derivative work. You are producing a clone.

Clones do not command a premium.

Every company right now is making a fundamental choice about their market position.

You can use AI to optimize your ability to copy. It is faster and cheaper than ever to replicate what your competitors are doing. If you choose this route, you will permanently play catch-up. You will trade market leadership for operational efficiency.

Or you can prioritize forward-looking human creativity. You can build the concepts that simply do not exist in the training data yet. By the time the rest of the market trains their models on your work, you will already be on the next iteration.

Market Leader > Market copier

05/29/2026

Software engineers are slowly losing the ability to navigate their own codebases.

When developers write code natively, they build a mental model of the architecture. They know where things are, how systems interact, and why certain fragile decisions were made years ago.

When developers transition to simply prompting an AI to generate code, that mental model degrades.

They are outsourcing the implementation, which means they are outsourcing their understanding of the system.The problem surfaces when something breaks. A developer who hasn't written the code no longer knows how to fix it natively.

They are forced to continue prompting their way out of the problem, guessing at solutions because they no longer possess the deep, structural knowledge of how everything is wired together.

We are trading deep expertise for temporary speed.

05/28/2026

The tech industry is walking blindly into a massive pricing vulnerability with AI coding tools.

Developers are rapidly transitioning from writing code to prompting it. As a result, engineering teams are losing their native familiarity with their own software architecture. They are becoming entirely dependent on external AI models to generate, debug, and maintain their codebases.

Uber blew through a 12-month AI budget in exactly four months.

Microsoft watched API costs climb and forced its own engineers to abandon Anthropic's Claude Code, despite those engineers preferring it over Copilot.

If AI providers execute a rug pull and raise token prices, engineering teams will be fuct. They cannot simply revert to writing and maintaining the code manually.

The developers will have already lost the deep institutional knowledge required to navigate their own systems natively.

When your team relies entirely on an external AI model to maintain your product, you are no longer paying for a software tool. You are paying rent on your own codebase.

The AI landlords WILL raise token prices because they need to appease shareholders when they go public.

When this happens, and you've let go a significant portion of your team that had institutional knowledge, you competitors that retained their experienced teams with proper AI governance... they will be able to surpass your overworked, short-staffed design/dev teams with ADHD trying to manage 5 agents to just keep up.

05/28/2026

AI coding tools are creating a massive bottleneck in software development.

Development teams are outputting code significantly faster right now. But faster output does not mean better output. All that AI-generated code is simply moving the bottleneck downstream and completely overloading QA teams.

Coding is only a fraction of the work required to ship software. Code review, testing, security scanning, integration is still highly manual. When engineers use AI to generate massive code diffs at an unprecedented pace, QA teams are buried under mountains of code they now have to verify line by line.

We are treating software development like a factory where the assembly line is running at 10x speed, but there's still only one inspector at the end of the belt.

The result isn't faster software delivery. It is a massive backlog and a high risk of broken code making it to production.

I've mentioned before, we were driving a bus and now have given keys (AI) to an F1 race car to a teenager. Sure we can move faster, but we will also be moving in the wrong direction and can crash more often.

05/22/2026

Ever read Through the Looking-Glass? Alice steps into a reversed world, starts running with the Red Queen, and realizes they aren't going anywhere. The Queen tells her: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

Fast forward to today’s tech landscape. Does that sound familiar?

In our newest episode of the Make an Impact Podcast, Makoto and Brinley tackle the Red Queen Problem. We discuss the unspoken reality of AI burnout, the rapid decay of skill relevance, and why just "working hard" doesn't translate to career advancement anymore.

If you feel like you are constantly sprinting just to avoid falling behind, this episode is for you. We explore the choice between augmentation and abdication, and share practical strategies to regulate your energy and focus on the skills that actually matter.

Catch the full trailer and episode here: https://youtu.be/uqN-0qFy0sY

05/20/2026

If you have any private repos with plan text secrets or sensitive documents/arch, immediately rotate your secrets.


We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely monitoring our infrastructure for follow-on activity.

05/20/2026

AI is really big data sets, lots of compute, LLMs mushed together, datasets by their very nature is backward looking, creativity is forward looking.

Because AI is backward-looking (trained on what already exists) and creativity is forward-looking (inventing what doesn't exist yet), it can only produce derivative work.

Clones don't sell.

- Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two

05/19/2026

The dot com bubble and subsequent market crash marked a significant period in internet history, leading to widespread disruption and many companies going out of business. However, this destruction paved the way for a digital transformation focused on improved user experience. This era highlighted the importance of better interfaces and applications, driving advancements in UX and product design.

Most companies are stuck in the "Red Queen" trap—running faster with AI tools but seeing zero impact on their core product metrics. At IIIMPACT, we don't just "implement AI"; we build your Product Intelligence Layer. We replace fragmented, manual processes with a unified Product System™ that bridges the gap between AI governance, agentic workflows, and high-end UX.

Why IIIMPACT is your strategic "Cheat Code":

The 3-Layer Product System™: We align Governance, Operations, and Intelligence into one queryable substrate.

Agentic Advantage: We move you past Level 1 productivity into Level 4 "Operating Intelligence," where your product improves itself in real-time.

High-Consequence UX: With 20+ years of expertise in luxury design and complex engineering, we ensure your AI isn't just functional—it’s intuitive and trusted.

From Fragmented Pilots to a Compounding Moat. Build the future of Product at iiimpact.ai.

05/19/2026

Human Well-Being Becomes Collateral Damage in AI

Our AI Product strategy team explores how superficial learning can lead to systemic risks, such as an "ai arms race," and diminishing returns, impacting our collective human nature. We discuss how human evolution in a capitalist framework often overlooks human potential, with well-being becoming collateral damage. It's a critical look at the economy and the inherent risk assessment involved.

Most companies are stuck in the "Red Queen" trap, running faster with AI tools but seeing zero impact on their core product metrics. At IIIMPACT, we don't just "implement AI"; we build your Product Intelligence Layer. We replace fragmented, manual processes with a unified Product System™ that bridges the gap between AI governance, agentic workflows, and high-end UX.

Why IIIMPACT is your strategic "Cheat Code":

The 3-Layer Product System™: We align Governance, Operations, and Intelligence into one queryable substrate.

Agentic Advantage: We move you past Level 1 productivity into Level 4 "Operating Intelligence," where your product improves itself in real-time.

High-Consequence UX: With 20+ years of expertise in luxury design and complex engineering, we ensure your AI isn't just functional—it’s intuitive and trusted.

From Fragmented Pilots to a Compounding Moat. Build the future of Product at iiimpact.ai.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ► https://www.youtube.com//subscribe

05/18/2026

Your Extinction Starts When You Stop Adapting

Our AI Product strategy team @ IIIMPACT explores the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence, moving from a mere tool to an encompassing environment by 2026. This shift necessitates deep adaptation, as failure to embrace this new ai technology paradigm could lead to obsolescence. Understanding the ai impact on future is crucial for both individuals and businesses to thrive in this evolving landscape, emphasizing continuous ai development and innovation.

Most companies are stuck in the "Red Queen" trap—running faster with AI tools but seeing zero impact on their core product metrics. At IIIMPACT, we don't just "implement AI"; we build your Product Intelligence Layer. We replace fragmented, manual processes with a unified Product System™ that bridges the gap between AI governance, agentic workflows, and high-end UX.

The 3-Layer Product System™: We align Governance, Operations, and Intelligence into one queryable substrate.

Agentic Advantage: We move you past Level 1 productivity into Level 4 "Operating Intelligence," where your product improves itself in real-time.

High-Consequence UX: With 20+ years of expertise in luxury design and complex engineering, we ensure your AI isn't just functional—it’s intuitive and trusted.

From Fragmented Pilots to a Compounding Moat. Build the future of Product at iiimpact.ai.

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ► https://www.youtube.com/

LISTEN ON: ITUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-an-iiimpact-the-user-inexperience-podcast/id1746450913

05/18/2026

In this clip from our latest full podcast episode, our AI Product strategy team explores the Red Queen Effect, tracing its origins from literature to science. We discuss how this concept began as a felt human experience of confusion and exhaustion, rather than a formal theory. Understanding these literary origins provides a deeper appreciation for its application in various fields, offering insights into human experience and broader implications.

Most companies are stuck in the "Red Queen" trap, running faster with AI tools but seeing zero impact on their core product metrics. At IIIMPACT, we don't just "implement AI"; we build your Product Intelligence Layer. We replace fragmented, manual processes with a unified Product System™ that bridges the gap between AI governance, agentic workflows, and high-end UX.

While others hand you a deck or a basic chatbot, we embed alongside your team to deploy a substrate where every product, and every agent, works in cohesion. The result? You scale your capability exponentially without scaling your headcount.

Full Episode - The Red Queen Problem: AI Burnout Without Progress - https://youtu.be/uqN-0qFy0sY

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST ► https://www.youtube.com//subscribe

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