Henrietta Crowe

I spent most of my career doing non-technical work, and I now build our product, @HeyNews. I got there by talking to AI coding agents night after night. The catch: the agents are good company right up until 4am, when you're still hitting approve every thirty seconds and what you actually want is sleep.

So I built a loop I can walk away from and wrote up exactly how it works: https://blog.heynews.co/afk-codi...

If you've shipped front-end with Claude, Cursor, or Copilot, you know the look. Purple gradient, three equal cards, Inter blown up huge, a "John Doe" testimonial, 300ms on everything. The tools don't choose it. They default into it, because the average of everything they trained on is generic.

I'm a designer, and undoing the same five mistakes by hand stopped scaling. So I built ux-skill.

It sits between you and your AI tool and swaps improvising for constraints:

• You describe the project in a forced brief.

• It builds a real design system: type, color, layout, motion.

• It generates the code against that system.

• It lints the result against 152 rules and blocks the generic version before it ships.

Hey everyone,

I'm Henrietta! I'm a developer and researcher focused on digital archives and data pipelines.