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Welcome to the TechBrew right home for Thursday, March 19th, 2026.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

In three parts, I'll make the case that Q1 of this year, the AI race has basically

become a land grab for design and development tasks.

Major League Baseball fully embraces our new prediction market

overlords. Even if they're behind in AI, Apple is still making big money from AI, and Uber is still

placing bets in the self-driving race. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Everybody is moving fast to land grab on the AI developer and even the designer space.

Here's example number one.

Google has updated Stitch to let users turn natural language prompts into UI designs

introducing an AI-native software design canvas and a reasoning design agent. Quoting the Deep View,

if you can use natural language prompts to build complex websites and apps, doing the same for

design should be no different, and that's exactly what Google Stitch sets out to do.

The redesign tool launched in beta on Tuesday lets users of all experience levels collaborate

with AI to create and iterate on software designs. The Stitch tool is intended to let users skip the initial

tedious steps of creating wireframes or rough outlines that map out the layout and

jump straight into building websites and apps with UIs focused on users' goals and inspirations.

While Stitch can do a lot for users of all experience levels,

the DeepFuse designer, Lucas Crespo, does not think it is a tool that sets out to replace

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