Month-by-month feed of what shifted, who was hiring, and how Starter, Scaler, and Titan teams actually worked.
51 synthesized monthsin the data layer. Stage breakdowns (Starter / Scaler / Titan) are available for 2026 only — earlier months show under the All segment but won’t appear under stage filters until the design-context pipeline runs further back.
Viewing future quarters under the A New Discipline Emerges worldview. The work of directing agents, structuring prompts, and maintaining coherence across AI-generated outputs becomes its own named discipline — not design, not engineering, not product. It has its own hiring track, its own tools, its own community.
One person, full stack, ships everything
Midjourney → Figma → v0
Vibe-coding closed the gap between design and production; the founder's designer has to live in both or they're half useful.
First real design team, already fighting agent sprawl
Figma → v0 → Runway
At this stage the system is what keeps agent output coherent; the person who owns that system owns every screen the company ships.
Design governance is now a product requirement
Runway → Figma → Storybook
At scale, taste and judgment applied to machine output is the lever — the director who can steer agent work across an org is worth more than any single executor.