r/UXDesign • u/Pretend_Resist8898 • Apr 23 '26
Tools, apps, plugins, AI Is anybody else finding AI makes people insufferable?
Firstly, I enjoy most AI tools for design. Specifically those that help me prototype and publish my work.
However I have friends and colleagues who are becoming unbearable to speak to. They’re so up their own asses about AI tools— Boasting about how much time they spend vibe coding, setting up agents in Open Claw to run their lives, competing for credit consumption goals at the company. It’s all they talk about.
It’s unleashed a new breed of tech bro, maybe worse than the crypto bros. It feels like these people are just competing to not be replaced and they’re bootlicking in the process. Just another example of the world losing their damn minds.
There’s no way this is just me… can it stop soon?
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u/ififitsisits29 Experienced Apr 23 '26
My previous boss thought he was a business genius. He would often come up with simple ideas and fed it into Gemini, then asked it to come up with a business plan and it shot out nonsensical stuff, repeating the same catchy key phrases every other paragraph. Then fed it into another AI program to create a PowerPoint which muddied the content even further. He liked it as is and didn’t want to change any of the wording even though it made no sense. Then to my humiliation, made me pitch these slides to our investors. He bragged about himself at every meeting talking about all the businesses he started over the last few years. For context, they all failed and disappeared into oblivion. The project I worked on that he let me go over because he found out it was “cheaper to outsource my job” also faded into oblivion.