Hey Siri, Call Google
WWDC ’26 biggest winners were Google, Liquid Glass haters, iPhone 11 owners, and foldable-iPhone speculation enjoyers.
David Demaree
Founder, Principal Design Engineer, and Lapsed Product Manager
I build web experiences & systems at Bits&Letters, the boutique digital agency I founded in 2024. Before B&L, for about a decade I led design-centric product teams at big companies including Google, Adobe, and Stripe, and before that I built websites and apps at agencies and in-house.
I’m a published author, international speaker, and TechCrunch once credited me with inventing the phrase “cognitive overhead.”
Latest additions to my blog
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Claude Opus is a Bore
The following transcript of me interviewing Claude Opus 4.8 (High effort) on May 31, 2026, is presented verbatim. I’ll note that, because I’m subscribed to the $200/mo Claude Max plan for my Claude Coding, the absurd number of tokens used to spew out Claude’s responses below were paid for more by Anthropic’s investors and enterprise…
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The Unworthy, Ungrateful Manchildren of Tech
A couple of years ago, WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went onstage at the annual WordCamp event and declared war against WP Engine, a big company whose entire business is built around WordPress, saying they needed to pay hefty royalties because they hadn’t shared enough free labor or cash back to the WP…
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Product orgs, reality, and vibes
A PM’s power is proportional to how close they are to the money.