alt Hacker News> What if you don’t give a shit about design and it’s a means to an end for a project that involves something different that you do care about?
Thank you for so succinctly demonstrating the problem with using AI for everything. You used to have to either care enough to do the design yourself or find someone who cared and specialized in that to do it for you. Now you quickly and cheaply fill in the parts you don't personally care about with sawdust, and as this becomes normalized you deprive yourself and others from discovering that they care about the design part. You'll ship your thing now, and it'll be fine. The damage is delayed and externalized.
I won't advocate against use of new technology to make yourself more productive, but it's important to at least understand what you're losing.
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> You used to have to either care enough to do the design yourself or find someone who cared and specialized in that to do it for you.
You think most UI/UX designers, or the artists creating slop for content marketing spam factories for the past decades, cared? Some, maybe. Most probably had higher ambitions, but are doing what actually pays their bills.
It's similar to software developers. Most of those being paid to code couldn't care less, they're in there for the fat paycheck; everyone else mostly complains the work is boring or dumb (or worse), but once you have those skills, it makes no economic sense to switch careers (unless, of course, you're into management, or into playing the entrepreneurship roulette).
> You used to have to either care enough to do the design yourself or find someone who cared and specialized in that to do it for you.
Or worse, you gave up because you did not have the time to learn the skill or the money to hire somebody. In this case, your dream just died.