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AI as Proxy for Skill, Not Taste
Scott Belsky's framing of what AI can and cannot replicate: technical skill (the ability to execute a correct output) is now abundant and automatable; taste (the judgment to know which correct output is right for this context, this brand, this user) remains scarce and human. The practical implication for designers: production work will be largely automated; curation, judgment, and taste become the entire job. Chris Strahl builds on this to argue that the designer's role does not shrink — it shifts from doing to deciding.
From the episode “Stop Designing Screens, Start Designing Patterns”Hear it on the podcast1 episode
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