# Joe Prisk

Engineer who specialises in building thoughtful, scalable digital products that turn complex problems into simple, human-centred solutions.

## Specialties

- Front-end Engineering,
- [Design Systems](/content/services/design-systems/index.html)

## Articles

- [**What engineering teams owe for the AI speed boost**  
  AI-assisted development genuinely accelerated engineering teams, but many organisations stopped at the velocity gains and ignored the accumulating debt. The costs: code nobody fully understands, weakened code review culture, bloated dependency trees, and architectural decisions made without real judgement about tradeoffs...  
  May 2026 ·4 min read](/content/blog/what-engineering-teams-owe-for-the-ai-speed-boost/index.html)
- [**Why your design system is the most important input to Claude Code**  
  Design systems are critical inputs for AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code because they constrain the AI’s micro-decisions around colours, spacing, and components – preventing "drift at speed" and ensuring generated UI remains consistent with your product’s visual language.  
  March 2026 ·5 min read](/content/blog/why-your-design-system-is-the-most-important-input-to-claude-code/index.html)