alt Hacker NewsThe benefit here is designers learning to code. It was always weird to me that designers were shaping software without knowing how it was built. I'm a designer btw.
However, designing in code is technology-first. One could argue that the purpose of design - to shape the artifacts for human purpose - is better done NOT starting with the strict rules of code. Pen and paper is still hard to beat, not for anything that looks nice, but for helping your mind forward.
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> without knowing how it was built
It helps to understand the constraints of a medium, but you really don't need to know every level down to the electrons moving through the silicon.
LLM usually make you forget coding, it doubt it's good for learning if you use in this way. For a designer it would be similar to Figma where he see the result and can edit it using language instead of visual editor
> The benefit here is designers learning to code.
Designers aren't learning to code.
My wife works as a product manager in a FAANG and her team has leaned extremely heavily in using AI to vibe-code some pieces of software that they would have done on Word, Excel or similar otherwise.
They're not learning to code, they don't even look at the code a single second.
You need designers that have worked closely with engineers and have their head screwed on.
Of course but sometimes designers like architects design something that can’t easily be built.
having an llm produce code isn't learning how to code, it's learning how to use a tool to produce code
maybe that doesn't matter though, I suspect many developers will no longer look at all the code they produce either
I've been a full stack and frontend focused engineer for six years and got sick of writing code by hand. Moved to design. Now since I can code with my voice basically I'm getting back into vibe coding and building products. And it's awesome. My bosses still trying to figure out the new situation though, i think the old school separation of roles is starting to die.Being on the intersection I think is the best place to be right now. I feel like my whole life I've been preparing for this moment.