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It’s far from dead. All of the AI models struggle with creativity and consistency. There’s always going to be a market for well designed UX.
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> There’s always going to be a market for well designed UX

Given the past 3 years, I will never understand how people can be so confident making statements like this

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If you are implying that AI models can do 'well designed UX', I would really love to learn the way of doing it.
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That's not how I'm reading it. More like, given the past 3 years development, why wouldn't AI be able to do that in the not-so-distant future?
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Using AI for design will always be derivative. For many cases that is good enough but for good product design, a human element will most likely always be necessary. Until the machine gains the ability to do just that
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Yeah. Where's the "well designed UI"?

The only thing left is my Roku box, and it seems to be starting on the road to crappification.

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The sentiment goes both ways?
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The local knitting club and Stanford University use the same flavor of stock/decorative images for their promos and communications.

Can’t believe that the thing that got permanently stale after a month is being put into question. The heresy of it all.

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What are you talking about, there's still a market for handmade watches from switzerland. Literally nobody values AI generated UX. Except people with terrible taste. I see it and I email you and tell you how ugly it is.

The billion dollar AI companies saying desgin is dead are still hiring 100k retainer designers to do their landing page.

You simply have terrible taste if you think otherwise.

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yes, but it will be the size of the market for smiths, coopers, and arkwrights.
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> There’s always going to be a market for well designed UX

A bold claim

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I'm not sure it's completely dead.

We use Claude for design of document templates a lot, and whilst we've built a fantastic pipeline for doing that well, asking Claude to then design anything outside of our guardrails isn't effective.

So I could imagine folks prioritising high quality design of all kinds choosing templates that would guide Claude.

I look at a large number of startup websites and it's very clear which ones are using Claude the excessive CAPS headings alone give it away. They look OK but the Claude aesthetic does leave me wondering whether this is a real business or one person using Claude to build a LP.

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> Even Adam admitted that AI impacted dramatically their business.

Even the bossman admitted that AI fired his employees, not the boss.

I guess that’s why people talk so much about leadership this leadership that. I’m learning that leadership is when you are the captain of the ship and the ship goes down you man the lifeboat and mourn your sailors over what the Sea did to them.

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In this specific case (Tailwind Labs) I don't understand this sentiment at all. It was a completely bootstrapped company! Its entire existence is due to the many years of difficult work by its founders.

What exact outcome would correctly align with "good leadership" in your view? It sounds like you think the CEO/cofounder should have "gone down with the ship" here -- how does that help anyone if it means the entire company would have failed?

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It is common in our industry isn't it? There was another startup that fired all their employees then one month later got acquired by CloudFlare. Hard to not see this as fraud in the loose sense of the word.
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