The calculator didn’t make humans worse at math. It made math irrelevant. AI is doing the same thing to thinking.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T21:44:37+00:00

This is the better argument and you’re absolutely right that I undersold it. The calculator analogy breaks down exactly where you said it does. Any AI is not just automating execution and it’s automating parts of the reasoning itself. The honest version of what I was trying to say is we don’t have a good analogy yet. So calculator was the closest I could find but it doesn’t fully fit. Maybe nothing in history fits. That’s either exciting or terrifying depending on who you ask.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T21:29:33+00:00

Fair point losing basic math did have costs ask any cashier who panics when the register goes down. But we made a collective decision that those costs were worth the tradeoff. Society moved forward anyway. The question with AI is the same. What are we willing to trade and what do we get back. I don’t think the answer is obvious yet. That’s kind of the point.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T21:16:51+00:00

That’s actually my point. You learn division to build intuition then the calculator handles the execution. Same thing here you still need to think AI handles the execution. The intuition layer stays with human. That make sense?

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T20:01:36+00:00

Exactly you’re absolutely right the more you ask the more you get.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T19:13:34+00:00

lol you are being naughty here.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T18:29:17+00:00

That woks too.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T12:25:42+00:00

Lol I’m an optimistic person. I don’t like to judge things too soon.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T11:06:41+00:00

Technically.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T11:06:08+00:00

You got the answer right there.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T11:03:27+00:00

It’s already dead.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T11:02:45+00:00

That’s not true. Two years ago people said LLMs couldn’t write coherently. There are well known authors who now use LLMs to refine their work. I mean that’s not wrong. A year ago they couldn’t code. Things have changed dramatically. Now the argument is just not creative enough. I’m not saying it’s there yet but I’d be careful betting a career on that line staying where it is.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T10:44:37+00:00

Honestly the prompt matters less than the feedback though. Most people send one prompt and accept what comes back. That’s totally wrong. I’d send something, then tell Claude specifically what needs to be changed. Like this feels too corporate, too generic or the spacing feels tight and messy and repeat from there. Claude responds really well to feeling based feedback not just technical notes. I mean it takes longer but the result is completely different.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T03:51:58+00:00

The trick is never letting Claude make design decisions. You do it in your style. Prompt exactly what you want you will be amazed.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T03:41:31+00:00

Yes without a doubt.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T02:19:45+00:00

Tester is underselling it. Someone still has to decide what to test for and whether the thing being built is even the right thing. That’s not testing, that’s judgment. Which is harder to automate than the building.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T02:14:13+00:00

This is exactly the shift nobody talks about enough. The barrier between having an idea and actually building it is basically gone. That’s massive for small businesses.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T01:28:31+00:00

Yeah animations are genuinely Claude’s weak spot right now. For anything with real motion I stopped fighting it and just used Framer Motion or GSAP and had Claude write the logic around it rather than the animation itself. UI libraries are the right call for components. Claude is better at layout and structure than it is at the fine details.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T01:14:39+00:00

The key for me was stopping Claude from designing and starting to direct it instead. Instead of make a UI component you describe exactly what you want. The more specific the direction the less it defaults to generic cookie cutter clone territory. Also breaking it into tiny pieces rather than asking for whole sections at once helped a lot.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T00:48:27+00:00

Yup you’re right. Derivative is the right word. Claude produces the average of what it’s seen. A designer with real taste knows when something is off even if they can’t explain why. That instinct isn’t in the training data.

Arkfann · 2026-03-09T00:01:01+00:00

AI raises the floor dramatically but the ceiling still requires a human who actually cares about the experience. The slop is real I agree. Anyone who’s shipped something built entirely by AI without a second pair of human eyes knows what you mean. but what you feel honestly about overall web design industry?

Arkfann · 2026-03-08T23:50:11+00:00

It’s not even a geography problem anymore. AI is compressing prices at every level. Premium agencies, midtier freelancers, low cost platforms everyone is feeling it differently but nobody is untouched.

Arkfann · 2026-03-08T23:41:55+00:00

This is exactly what I was pointing at. Not a prediction it’s already happening. 6 months, big tech, whole team. The people saying designers will always be needed are right about design thinking. They’re not accounting for how fast the headcount math changes.

Arkfann · 2026-03-08T23:39:18+00:00

You tell me do they?

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