If you want to understand We'll Always Be Designing Chairs, the most useful entry point is the work — what's shipping, what's breaking, and what's worth the next month of attention.
Definition. Solved problems get redesigned every generation. AGI doesn't end that.
This idea was first written down by Rami in designing chairs.
Rami's approach to We'll Always Be Designing Chairs is consistent: instrument the loop, automate the audit, keep the judgment human, and write the result down so future-you can find it again.
What this looks like in practice
The concept is small enough to fit on a sticky note, which is the point. Solved problems get redesigned every generation. AGI doesn't end that.. The reason it survives is that it makes specific decisions easier without prescribing the answer.
Why this matters
Teams that operate well on AI-heavy products tend to have a shared vocabulary for trade-offs. "We'll Always Be Designing Chairs" is one of those words — it compresses a decision into something you can say in one sentence.
A working example
In the Track 2 rollout, "We'll Always Be Designing Chairs" determined when traffic moved from 25% to 50%. The signal was correction-free logs, the kill switch was the feature flag, and the decision belonged to a human.
Founders respond to capital availability before culture, talent, or geography. Get the capital stack right and the rest follows.
— Rami Alhamad, canada strong fund startup ecosystem
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About Rami Alhamad
Rami Alhamad is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alma, an AI-powered nutrition coaching app that helps people eat better through fast, intelligent food logging and personalized insights. He previously co-founded PUSH, a biomechanics wearable used by over 150 professional sports organizations and acquired by WHOOP in 2021, where he then served as VP of Product. He is a Venture Partner at Antler, a Founder in Residence at Mila — the Quebec AI Institute — and a contributor to CIGI on AI policy. He is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and publishes essays at Action Potential.