Designer on Ryo Lu leaving Silicon Valley: what makes us special in the AI era
Awkward_Hand_5249 · reddit · 2026-11-10
A designer reflects on Ryo Lu — a longtime industry frontrunner who abruptly left Silicon Valley with only 'Returning to Asia' — whose site (skeuomorphic ry OS, an iPod 4 playing Stefanie Sun, monsoon-tinged poetry) embodies a private world apart from avant-garde design. Lu's AIE Shanghai talk asked: 'AI makes your skills no longer special. So what still makes you special?' The author describes years of anxious chasing, exhaustion after each 'nuclear' AI shock, and how conversational AI has killed curiosity and uncritical acceptance of its conclusions. His answer: embrace one's own ambiguity and complexity as resistance to becoming a tool — 'Read books that serve no practical purpose. Be an interesting person.'
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