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The Making of Superhuman Docs: How We Designed AI Views, a Vibe Coding Tool for Teamwork

The Making of Superhuman Docs: How We Designed AI Views, a Vibe Coding Tool for Teamwork

by Jeremy Olson, Product Management Director I’ve been building productivity software for over 20 years, and creating AI views for the new Superhuman Docs has been the most fun I've ever had. The best shorthand I have for it is “a vibe coding tool for teamwork.” It
The Making of Superhuman Docs: How We Rebuilt the AI in Superhuman Docs From the Ground Up

The Making of Superhuman Docs: How We Rebuilt the AI in Superhuman Docs From the Ground Up

by Bharat Batra, Senior Product Manager The evolution from Coda to Superhuman Docs gave us the opportunity to completely reimagine Docs’ native AI from the ground up. I think about AI the way I think about a foundation. If it’s shaky, it doesn’t matter how great what’s
The Making of Superhuman Docs: Building the Foundation for Your Most Important Data

The Making of Superhuman Docs: Building the Foundation for Your Most Important Data

As we evolved Coda into Superhuman Docs, we knew that the data layer was one of the first things we wanted to transform and one of the most ambitious. Coda makers had spent years pushing tables and databases further than we could have ever anticipated—and in doing so, showed
The Making of Superhuman Docs: How We Brought a New Visual Identity to Docs

The Making of Superhuman Docs: How We Brought a New Visual Identity to Docs

Today, we announced Coda is becoming Superhuman Docs, the best place for AI and teams to work together. This is more than a name change; it’s the beginning of an entirely new chapter. Coda had spent a decade building a loyal, passionate user base, and bringing it into the
Building a Rigorous Conversation Quality Evaluation System for Superhuman Go

Building a Rigorous Conversation Quality Evaluation System for Superhuman Go

Author: Arshi Jujara, Software Engineer at Superhuman. What does it mean to have a quality conversation with a large language model (LLM) system?  At Superhuman, this question has been central to our work. We’re building a range of agentic and conversational features—including the AI assistant Superhuman Go and
Blood, sweat, and prompts: How we built Superhuman AI 🧠

Blood, sweat, and prompts: How we built Superhuman AI 🧠

Here's how we built Superhuman AI in 3 months — to make Superhuman Mail, the fastest email experience ever made, even faster
Building for desktop and mobile: how startups can find the fastest workflow

Building for desktop and mobile: how startups can find the fastest workflow

How do you build and ship new features for desktop and mobile when each platform, tooling, and team is distinct? Superhuman's Rachel Hyman explains...
How to build a remarkable command palette

How to build a remarkable command palette

Command palettes are incredible tools: they're fast, versatile, and will transform users into power users! Tim Boucher explains how to build a truly remarkable command palette for your product...
How to eliminate regular expression denial of service

How to eliminate regular expression denial of service

When regexes go wrong, they go devastatingly wrong. Here we share how to avoid catastrophic downtime that you would only see in production!
Performance metrics for blazingly fast web apps

Performance metrics for blazingly fast web apps

Performance metrics are surprisingly challenging to get right. Here we share how to create metrics that are accurate, precise, and useful!
Advanced Swift debugging for UIKit

Advanced Swift debugging for UIKit

At Superhuman, we're building the fastest email experience in the world. As we've pushed iOS to its limits, we've had to dive into the deepest internals of UIKit.
Delightful search: more than meets the eye

Delightful search: more than meets the eye

Search is one of the most frequent and important email tasks. Users expect search to be fast, powerful, responsive, and available.
Building reliable apps on unreliable networks

Building reliable apps on unreliable networks

This is how we detect and communicate network status as part of making Superhuman the fastest and most reliable email experience in the world.