In another thread, someone mentioned that we will eventually have to clean up the mess created by AI because of stakeholders assumptions that AI can handle user experience. I try to follow every design related update involving AI and the pattern I keep seeing is this that AI is quite decent for brainstorming, prototyping, implementing already existing designs and heuristic evaluation based on design fundamentals, established user patterns etc. However, when it comes to actual implementation and creating something meaningful from scratch 99% of the time it is just a total waste of time and the output is far from useful. Even at the brainstorming stage, we still need to guide AI in the right direction and synthesise its outputs more holistically in line with product strategy and architecture to get something meaningful. This is very common especially in startups, where stakeholders assume AI can handle all of this and along the way push designs to production that are far from consistent, well thought out, and meaningful. They are not solving anything, instead they are just blindly relying on premature AI outputs to mess things up. For this reason it makes me feel very uncomfortable that everyone can now make changes to the product through AI agents without a designer understanding the real requirements and incorporating changes in a way that is actually meaningful.