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Who’s it for? UX designers, product designers, or just about anyone obsessed with software development.
In the words of Pavel, the author, it’s for those who think about "the work rather than the tools." That's a tricky dichotomy to navigate. I, for one, gravitate toward his pieces on how AI tools shape the work.
The one about Grammarly’s AI impersonation feature Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking warns against shipping new features without clear direction.
The one about AI-proofing careers warns against project mindset. He argues:
Being able to prompt up a prototype before the problem has even been framed is not a design skill, or a product skill, or an engineering skill. The people chasing this niche are all going to be replaced by middle managers who can do the same thing just as well.
Pavel may be making an argument about design, but each piece prompts me to think about my own work.
Start here:
The AI age is the “age of no consent”
“Inevitability” means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.
Pavel Samsonov
AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past
The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.
Pavel Samsonov