AI coding agents have boosted engineering productivity 10-100×, but design work stays messy and iterative. Designers can generate ideas faster, but each one still needs trial and failure. That mismatch leaves designers uncertain what they're supposed to do now.
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A lot of designers might be feeling very uncertain. Engineers have 10 or sometimes 100x their productivity, but our design team hasn't because the design process still takes time. It's still, sometimes you have to try a bunch of things and throw them out versus maybe working with a coding agent. You ask it to do something, it's pretty binary. Now at this point, it usually sort of gets it pretty well, but the design process is really still very messy and fluid and you throw you have a great idea and you try it and it sucks. And then you try it again and it sucks. You get internal feedback and it's wrong. You still have to go through that arduous and kind of messy, but really fun process. It's compressed in that you can get much more ideas out fast, but you still need that whole feedback loop. So the point is that we're unclear right now what is expected of a designer. That lack of clarity I can see totally lead to some fears or some unease.