A UX team discovered that AI-assisted design feedback increased shipping speed while quietly degrading designer skill depth. The headline finding: faster output, slower professional growth.
The piece is worth reading in full because it goes beyond a surface-level critique. It examines the specific mechanism at work, how AI feedback short-circuits the friction that normally builds design judgment, replacing earned intuition with borrowed conclusions.
The implications reach beyond UX. Any discipline where AI accelerates feedback loops should be asking the same question: are practitioners developing expertise, or just consuming it. The gap between speed and depth is the real story here.
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