"Generating content for design mocks or writing simple scripts to automate boring tasks. I even built a Figma plugin to easily rename all the icons in our icon library, to avoid the repetitive work, but also because I was curious if I could make it work. One thing led to another. I started playing around and started finding excuses to explore. I built an iOS app to keep track of daily exercise, started playing with V0 and Lovable to quickly brainstorm and generate rough design"
"Direct answers, cleaner summaries, fewer tabs open, and much less noise. But something subtle disappeared in the process. No more random blog posts from 2010, fewer half-relevant Reddit rabbit holes. Almost nothing that pulled me somewhere unexpected. I stopped wandering, I started extracting. Super efficient, but over time, that efficiency started to shape how I thought. I was moving faster towards answers, but along narrower paths. Ideas felt more predictable, and I was less surprised by where I ended up."
AI tools gradually replaced manual tasks and became central to workflows, starting with small automations and design helpers. Adoption expanded into shipping production work and joining teams focused on AI. Search habits shifted from broad web exploration to concise answer tools like Perplexity, producing direct summaries and less noise. That shift increased efficiency but reduced serendipitous discoveries, narrowing idea pathways and making outcomes more predictable. Design benefits from detours, dead ends, and exploratory wandering, which can surface unexpected ideas. Overreliance on shortcuts risks shaping thinking toward convergence and may diminish creative opportunity.
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