From one piece Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer 20 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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People will be desperate for the human side of things, more than for quality and craft.Their words
We've had quality, we've had craft, but I think what people are going to be desperate for is more of that human side of things
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The bar is so high that designers who are not using AI tools to differentiate themselves will get left behind.Their words
the bar is so high. Like everyone wants the same type of designer, the same shape of designer that if you're not using these tools to differentiate yourself a little bit like you are going to get left behind and that sucks.
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A portfolio on a basic Squarespace template will probably get passed on even if the content is really good.Their words
if your site is on Squarespace and it's a basic Squarespace template, you're probably going to get passed on even if the content's really good.
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you have to demonstrate that you understand these systems and you're like you're actually building something with them. Whether it is like another shader plugin system, just do something with it to see and explore and be able to to talk to it and like talk through the process.
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do your products have an agentic focus to them? Or is everything readable by an agent because there's going to be a lot more agents doing the work for people. So you have to like think through that as a designer.
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An MCP fills up an AI's context window very quickly.Their words
the context window, the window that the AI can hold and think gets filled up very quickly with an MCP.
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MCPs are they're not going anywhere. Anyone who says an MCP is dead is like, that's hype. Like that's crazy. But, they're going to change quite a bit and we're going to see a lot more companies leaning more and towards better semantic APIs and CLIs than they will an MCP
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it's easy for us right now, I think, to have like, "Oh my gosh, we can just do all the things." And it's like, "Yeah, but is it worth doing? And do you feel proud of the output itself?
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chat surfaces are only going to be more and more prominent.
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Being AI native has to go beyond making a cool shader or a dither effect that every other person is making.Their words
So AI native has to be beyond just like I made a really cool shader or I made this like dither effect that every other person is making.
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A skill is a set of repeatable, specific instructions that augments what Claude Code can do.Their words
all it is is it's a set of repeatable specific instructions that augments what Claude code can do.
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The more context you give it about your work and what you're trying to accomplish, the better the output will be.
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if you don't know where to start, you just start typing.
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One thing that LLMs I don't think do really well at is like creative exploration, but you can teach it to do divergent thinking very quickly.
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at their core LLMs are just pattern matching and so they are fantastic at very quickly identifying patterns that even though the human brain is an unbelievable like the greatest pattern matcher in history, we still have these gaps. And so you can use AI to become this mirror that's like reflecting back at you some things that you might be missing about yourself and your work and where you're at.
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People have more repeatable patterns than they think; they are just not great at identifying them.Their words
I think a lot of times we don't think we've got repeatable patterns. We do, we're just not great at identifying them.
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There are other massive unlocks to me for AI around workflows, around like how whether it's content design, things that you wouldn't see, organization, like analysis. So these Claude code skills, you can I mean you can create anything that's repeatable pattern. You can create a Claude code skill for.
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LLMs are going to hallucinate like crazy, going to make stuff up.
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"I don't know" becomes a kind of superpower when you can work with Claude Code to figure things out.Their words
I don't know becomes kind of a superpower cuz I'm assuming I could work with Claude code to figure it out
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Fleshed-out plans and perfect spec or PRD docs are not needed to get Claude Code started working.Their words
I don't need to have fleshed out plans. I don't need to actually have like the perfect spec docs or PRD docs to get Cloud Code to start working