Designer: AI has made every app feel like a minimum-effort build
michalmalewicz · x · 2026-09-06
Designer Michal Malewicz argues that AI has made anything anyone builds feel unimpressive. Not everything is bad — plenty of good stuff still ships — but every decent app now carries a sense of "minimal effort" that's hard to disprove, as mass AI generation erodes the perceived craft behind products.
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