As AI Floods Software with Code, Products Spark Wonder but Rarely Delight
manosaie · x · 2026-11-03
The author argues that pre-AI, the best-designed products let you retrace a team's care and thinking through their decisions — a "meta craft of storytelling" that curated specific emotions for users.
As the barrier to building software has fallen and code volume exploded, distilling that story has gotten harder: AI-powered products more often invoke wonder or awe, but rarely delight. That, he says, is a loss.
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