If AI can design, what is a designer for?
See how a designer's job is changing in the era of AI.
What is a designer for? Training the AI.
The Lovable founder doesn't need to fire his AI. He needs to stop pretending he can replace a designer with one. The role he's missing isn't the person who would have made the screens. It's the person who would have told the AI *what to make screens about, for whom, and why* — and then would have caught the AI when it confidently did the wrong thing.
That's the most leveraged work in design right now. Not making the screens. Shaping the system that makes them. The output is still design. The work moved one layer up.
If AI can design, what is a designer for? Training the AI to do design correctly — for this business, this audience, this moment. That's a real job. It's not a fallback. It's the most honest answer to the question.
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