Design teams now build their own hyper-detailed AI tools — and it could blow up GDP
round · x · 2026-10-10
Engineer thdxr notes his design team is building "crazy detailed" tools to help with their own work — AI letting professionals craft bespoke productivity tools. He argues that if this happens at scale across the whole economy, the productivity gains will explode GDP.
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