Agreed on your take on the parent, although I have to say I feel that AI has had the opposite effect for me. It has only accelerated learning quite significantly. In fact not only is learning more effective/efficient, I have more time for it because I am not spending nearly as much time tracking down stupid issues.

No. It says much more than that, because it applies to many other tools that aren't AI.

"Verbose" is the wrong adjective. Yours is a terse projection into a lower space, valid in itself, but lacking the power and precision of its archetype.

What if you’re a musician and use design as part of your marketing? Why should a musician deep dive design when they really only care about music?

> using generative AI has a detrimental effect on the user because one deprives themselves of the learning experience

Or it lets folks focus. My coding skills have gotten damn rough over the years. But I still like the math. Using AI to build visualizations while I work on the model math with paper and pen is the best of both worlds. I can rapidly model something I’m working on out algebraically and analytically.

Does that mean my R skills are deteriorating? Absolutely. But I think that’s fine. My total skillset’s power is increasing.

I think that the beauty of the human experience is that all you need to learn is to practice. You automatically improve at what you're doing. The kinds of skills that atrophy when you use AI are skills that AI can already automate. And nobody is going to pay you to do slowly what a machine can do quickly/cheaply.

When you deploy AI to build something, you wind up doing the work that the AI itself can't do. Holding large amounts of context, maintaining a vision, writing apis and defining interfaces. Alongside like, project management. How much time is spent on features vs refactoring vs testing.

I think the larger part implied is the design will be crappy, because the problem was unexplored

Was thinking similarly... Without the friction, you're unable to explore the space, the space doesn't even exist at all... So it's not even clear where you're going from or where you'll arrive at.

your paragraph is parent's point in action.

If only all great works could just be an X post!

And, anyone who reads your comment will be deprived of the experience of learning why your comment makes so much sense.

Not really. It’s saying that most people in tech have no fucking idea what designers do, but somehow feel qualified to evaluate their output, and think tools that make things that look nice are designing things. What you reference is one effect of what the comment is about. Another effect is developers, combining this with engineer’s disease, being incredibly irritating to work with because they constantly make reductive comments that completely miss the point while other developers nod and say “yeah that sounds right.” I was a developer for ten years— I’ve seen this from both sides.