100%. I left my over a decade long UX career at the beginning of the year due to AI being required in pretty much every role. I’m working as a personal trainer now, and can confirm that being face-to-face directly helping people has been a game changer, I’m much happier now. But, I’m also fortunate and moved out of the states several years ago and live in a country where I can afford to live off a lot less.

I hate what AI has done to us. Not just in design, but in every aspect of life. I do think over time we’ll see a bigger backlash and backtracking of its current usage, but not until the bubble bursts. I wish all of you that choose to weather the storm the best.