What Derek Briggs thinks about AI and human skill

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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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1. 3 Nov 2026

   Our readingAI should make people ten times better at their work, not have them do ten times more of it.

   Their wordsIt's really important to me that folks are not using AI to do 10 times more work. It's important to me that it's making them 10 times better.

   ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 13th of 13 in this recording