Comment by permo-w

1 day ago

I honestly think people are so massively panicking over nothing with AI. even wrt graphic design, which I think people are most worried about, the main, central skill of a graphic designer is not the actual graft of sitting down and drawing the design, it's having the taste and skill and knowledge to make design choices that are worthwhile and useful and aesthetically pleasing. I can fart around all day on Stable Diffusion or telling an LLM to design a website, but I don't know shit about UI/UX design or colour theory or simply what appeals to people visually, and I doubt an AI can teach me it to any real degree.

yes there are now likely going to be less billable hours and perhaps less joy in the work, but at the same time I suspect that managers who decide they can forgo graphic designers and just get programmers to do it are going to lose a competitive advantage