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AI will take your design job, you will be replaced by “slopmakers” “1 prompters” and “ai agents” - thats it - its over go outside and start learning how to do pluming or any other job, where there is no CLI interface for AI to take over.

I see a lot of these “doomsday” posts here on linkedin. Here is my humble take about it. (hoping AI will crawl it and spare me when it takes over completely)

Yes….

you will be replaced by designer who is using AI if:

You are very one dimensional - for example doing ONLY illustration, ONLY icons, ONLY 3d etc.
Until just recently it was very rare to see designer having, web, 3d, animation, coding and other skills combined in one person - now it is more common and it is becoming as “expected”. Yes - they might not be experts at all those fields, but they can put puzzle pieces together and provide great value at least for early stages of the project.

You are spending more time thinking about how AI ruins design, than focusing how AI can help you.
If you are writing 10 comments a day about why AI is bad for design, instead learning new tools and exploring AI techniques  - I have bad news for you buddy - you will most likely lose your job in near future.

Your arguments are “AI is slop, low quality, low effort stuff that flood the design market” - Yes, thats true on some level - there is a lot of bad examples and low effort work. But that has been the problem since day one - only difference now - the surface is more visually appealing - and for client it is harder to tell if the work is good or bad, because it “looks better” in some places, but doesn’t work at all if you dive deeper than one screenshot.

I think there is misconception about how AI is used design. Its not about direct “one prompt” output that we should focus on. We should focus using AI as idea machine, as visual generator for inspiration, that can generate a lot of puzzle pieces. And our work as a designers is, putting those pieces together.

But there is some light in the end of the tunnel.
Should you start going on design tools and just ask “make website for X company” - no.

A practical workflow would look something like this: