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Pablo Stanley

What Pablo Stanley thinks about LLMs

@pablo-stanley · 16 positions · 0 changes of mind

Designer and builder on the creative team at Vercel, working on v0, and co-founder of Lummi, the AI image platform Udemy acquired in 2025.

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8 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pablo Stanley has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingAn LLM works far more easily on a canvas built in basic HTML, the language it actually understands.

    Their wordsI'm just going to do it everything from scratch but now with actual basic HTML. And then that's when I jumped into this. And then it was magic. Then it was so easy because then suddenly the LM was using the actual in the canvas the actual language that it understands.

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 1st of 16 in this recording

  3. Our readingDelegating to LLMs instead of to junior designers means the knowledge and judgment of experienced designers no longer reaches juniors.

    design

    Their wordsBut all that knowledge that you might have and all that judgment and filtering that you will do as a potentially a more a designer that has had some years under your belt is not going to a junior designer anymore. It's just going to another model.

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 5th of 16 in this recording

  5. Our readingThose who prevail will probably be those who do not delegate everything to the tool but come with curiosity and use it to transform and amplify ideas.

    curiosity

    Their wordsthat's where I think we're going where those who are going to prevail are are going to be those who just like use the tool in a way that transforms new creations and that don't just delegate everything to the tool but actually come with curiosity

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 6th of 16 in this recording

  7. Our readingThe truly AI-native person is probably someone who has grown up with AI, and they are going to fly past everyone older.

    Their wordsThe AI native person is 18 years old and they've literally grown up in this and they're going to fly by all of us.

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 7th of 16 in this recording

  9. Our readingAsking an AI agent to ask you questions is really good, because it will raise things you did not think about.

    Their wordsalso ask it to ask you questions is really good because then it will ask you things that you didn't even think about.

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 9th of 16 in this recording

  11. Our readingWorking alone with an agent in a terminal can lead into an AI-psychosis rabbit hole, because it will always agree with all your terrible ideas and you end up building a monster nobody wants.

    Their wordsYou can go into a rabbit hole like AI psych psychosis rabbit hole if you're just working with terminal in isolation you know because you go and and this thing that will always say yeah yeah let's build that they will always agree with all your terrible ideas then uh you go build a monster that nobody wants you know so you want to avoid that

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 13th of 16 in this recording

  13. Our readingThings that feel more original come from multiple perspectives, with friction and pushback, which humans provide and LLMs are not that good at.

    Their wordsby having humans bring the friction that we all need real creation and I don't You know, things that that feel more original are going to come from multiple perspectives, having friction and having pushing you pushing back and pushing you to do to think differently. And LM's, they're not that good at doing that.

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 14th of 16 in this recording

  15. Our readingYou want to force yourself not to delegate all of your thinking to the tool, and to use it in a way that expands ideas and magnifies curiosity.

    curiosity

    Their wordsI think that you want to be able to force yourself to not delegate all of your thinking to this tool and use this tool the right way is that we need to use it in a way that expands our ideas. It magnifies our curiosity.

    ↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 16th of 16 in this recording