AI design accidentally triggers a human renaissance: taste beats execution by 2028
EXM7777 · x · 2026-10-30
Reacting to Canva's launch of Brush, its first vision-language model for design, EXM7777 lays out a three-phase thesis on AI design:
- Phase 1 (2023-2025): AI design meant regenerate-and-lose-everything; a slot machine we called magic, filling the internet with slop.
- Phase 2 (2026-2027): Specialized models learn to edit like humans — restyling, reformatting, and applying changes across pages while keeping what works. The better AI follows direction, the more the only thing that matters is who gives the direction.
- Phase 3 (2028+): The pendulum swings back — outdoor experiences become luxury, oil painting and marble sculpting turn premium, and we start valuing struggle and effort again.
His core claim: AI design accidentally triggers a human renaissance where taste and intent, not execution, become scarce.
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