LLMs are not very good at the last mile of design, and that last mile needs to remain designers' superpower.

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• AI tooling and interface design lags behind the underlying models' actual capabilities. NENelson Elhage27 Jan 2025LLMsdesign
• Chatbots are a terrible interface for large language models, because a text box has no affordances. AWAmelia Wattenbergerby 1 May 2023LLMsdesign
• Delegating to LLMs instead of to junior designers means the knowledge and judgment of experienced designers no longer reaches juniors. PSPablo Stanley21 Jul 2026LLMsdesign
• Directing AI coding agents well means taking on the role of a project leader like Linus Torvalds rather than reviewing every line. SSSalvatore Sanfilippo25 Jul 2026LLMsdesign
• Language models are gullible by design — they do what they are told and believe nearly anything said to them — and that, not a bug, is what makes software built on them attackable. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026LLMsdesign

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