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10 hours agoDesigning with AI without losing your mind
Outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools in design can undermine the quality of solutions and diminish essential skills.
One thing I always do when I prompt a coding agent is to tell it to ask me any questions that it might have about what I've asked it to do. (I need to add this to my default system prompt...) And, holy mackerel, if it doesn't ask good questions. It almost always asks me things that I should have thought of myself.
We already know, either in detail or broadly, what content and architecture the app will have. At this point, we would start researching similar solutions from competitors and references to get inspired, and eventually move into design. We don't have to skip this process; however, with AI assistance, we can go from text to an initial functional design that generates hundreds of ideas and provides direction.