AI products swap newspaper layouts for office cubicles: File folders now the 'revolutionary' backbone of human-bot drudgery

The emergence of AI products is transforming the design paradigm from information containers to work systems, shifting the focus from presenting information to organizing productivity. Unlike internet products, which solved an information problem, AI products introduce a productive force that can participate in task decomposition and execution. The key to designing effective AI products lies in creating a work container that can host and constrain this force. File systems, which have been widely adopted for organizing and advancing work, can amplify AI productivity by satisfying both human needs for expressing work state and AI's structural constraints for context construction. By understanding the structure of human work and AI's working logic, product designers can create systems that carry continuous state progression, enabling human-AI collaboration and increasing productivity. This shift in design paradigm has significant implications for the tech industry, as companies like Google and Microsoft are already investing in AI-powered productivity tools, marking a new era in product design and development.