What Flora Guo thinks about LLMs
Founding design engineer at Paradigm as of March 2026, earlier at Vercel.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Flora Guo has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI think what AI is really good at doing is giving us artifacts, but they're not necessarily grounded in understanding of the system, which I think can be really great with making prototypes, little one-off experiments, but the moment you need to debug something, you're like, "Oh, man, I don't even know where to start."
↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 7th of 15 in this recording
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Our readingRather than having AI just do the task, people should use it to help build the right mental models.
Their wordsBut, I really encourage us to flip it and be like, "How can we use AI to help us build the right mental models that we need?
↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 14th of 15 in this recording