Designer essay: AI gets me to 99% ten times faster — and the 1% I keep accepting is adding up
round · x · 2026-10-01
Designer clowang's essay on the atrophy of the creative mind when AI delivers 99% of what you'd make, 10x faster: what happens when you accept that 1% drop over and over? It starts from the feeling that spending time in Figma now feels wrong. The page itself degrades each time you cmd+tab away and back, mirroring the theme. round shared it alongside the concept of a site that mutates on every visit.
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