"I was experimenting with Bolt, Cursor, and Figma Make. I wasn't trying to prove a point, just testing and exploring. Then I watched them: generate a full flow in seconds, fix spacing and layout without me touching a single frame, rewrite UI copy that looked better than my first drafts, translate a quick sketch into a clean interface. All the grunt work - gone."
"I had a moment of stillness where it hit me:If these tools can do this today, what will they do in six months? In one year? What will be left of my role as a product designer if my value is execution? Everywhere we go, We hear reassuring things like below: ''AI is not going to replace design, a person using AI will.''"
Bolt, Cursor, and Figma Make produced full user flows instantly, corrected spacing and layout without manual frame edits, rewrote UI copy more polished than initial drafts, and translated rough sketches into clean interfaces. Routine, repetitive design tasks disappeared, creating a pause and concern about the future trajectory of these tools. Questions arise about what advances in six months or a year will mean for roles centered on execution. Common reassurances claim that AI will augment rather than replace designers, but those reassurances feel incomplete when execution itself becomes automatable.
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