Skills, not roles

Every few months, someone identifies the part of design that AI cannot touch. The answer is almost always aesthetic judgment. The implication is clean: models produce, humans evaluate, and the profession stays intact.

That boundary is weaker than it looks. Watch any good founder squint at a mockup, or an engineer flinch at a clumsy layout. Taste isn't a designer's birthright. What design practice actually trains is narrower: the ability to explain a reaction. To know not just that something is off, but why.

When generation is cheap, what remains is the quality of your thinking. That's not a design skill. It's a human one.

Stop asking whether your discipline survives. Create, share, and let the label sort itself out.