Kai Jenkins
Writing

Writing

Ideas from building AI products and the systems around them.

Long-form notes on applied AI, frontend architecture, design systems, evaluation, and the decisions that help software hold up in production.

Latest essays

4 articles

  1. 10 min read

    Building Framework-Agnostic Component Foundations

    A practical architecture for sharing design-system behavior, accessibility, tokens, and contracts across frameworks without collapsing into a lowest-common-denominator UI.

    • design systems
    • frontend architecture
    • web platform
  2. 9 min read

    Observability for Generative AI Products Beyond Token Counts

    A production-oriented framework for connecting service health, AI execution, response quality, safety, and user outcomes without turning telemetry into a privacy liability.

    • ai engineering
    • observability
    • production systems
  3. 8 min read

    Turning Design-System Documentation Into a Reliable Knowledge Base

    A practical model for transforming component guidance, tokens, examples, and decisions into trustworthy context for AI-assisted product work.

    • design systems
    • retrieval
    • ai engineering
  4. 8 min read

    Evaluating AI-Generated Interfaces Beyond Snapshot Tests

    A layered evaluation model for testing generated interfaces as code, accessible UI, visual systems, and usable products.

    • ai engineering
    • evaluation
    • frontend testing