What Derek Briggs thinks about AI agents
Designer and developer. Principal designer at Shopify; before that head of design at Hypermode (with Kevin Van Gundy, acquired) and, in 2024, Director of Design at Clerk.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Derek Briggs has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI think that designers need to spend some more time on the artboard at times. I think that there's a lot of prompting happening that just results in what an agent will do for you.
↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 5th of 13 in this recording
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Our readingDesigners should own the quality of the output rather than rely on their agents to determine it.
Their wordsBut right now in this era, I think designers even more should really own what the quality of output is rather than relying on their agents to, to determine what the quality is.
↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 7th of 13 in this recording
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Their wordsBecause I am a big believer that, like, the most important piece of context that you have is your codebase. And if you just let it continue to evolve itself and sling things in there from various different models doing various different things, I think that you're going to get into a world of hurt eventually.
↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 10th of 13 in this recording