Design flipped: from brick-by-brick to chipping a sculpture out of marble in the AI era
round · x · 2026-11-11
Designer maxvoltar offers a metaphor for AI-era design: it used to be brick by brick, now it's chipping a sculpture out of marble — same craft, opposite direction. The reblogger adds that we're all Michelangelo now, watching apprentices hack away at marble until we yell at them a few times.
The thread captures how creation has shifted from additive building to subtractive refinement, with humans as directors rather than executors.
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