Figma Exec: Don't Outsource Your Thinking to AI — Beware the Slot-Machine Trap
bendee983 · x · 2026-10-06
Figma's zoink told employees: 'We hired you because you can think. Don't outsource your thinking to AI,' stressing curiosity and time away from screens. bendee983 expands: thinking used to be enmeshed with doing, but AI makes it easy to fall into a slot-machine trap of endless re-prompting and corrections without investigation. Maintaining your own thinking while using AI takes deliberate practice and rewiring.
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