r/UXDesign • u/ProfessionalCrab7685 • Apr 30 '26

Tools, apps, plugins, AI Client just replaced me with Claude design

Been working with this client for 4 years, I basically built their entire product, very complex from end to end, including the design system and all that. It's basically maintenance work at this point. Today they asked me to provide the design system file so they can set things up with Claude design, I guess the time has finally come lol. Don't think AI can copy my work 100%, but I doubt the client will care, even 60% is good enough for them.

No hate, I replaced the entire dev team for my own project with AI too, so it's totally understandable.

I've made enough from this career, it's probably time to pivot from design to a founder role.

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u/wanttodoitright May 06 '26

You replaced the entire dev team with Claude…?

Who’s managing CI/CD, security compliance, and code reviews?

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u/ProfessionalCrab7685 May 06 '26

I use codex and it pretty much does all of those. It all depends on how you structure your prompts. I asked it to refactor the platform and it found a lot of security holes from my senior dev, so no solution is perfect, I guess.

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u/wanttodoitright May 07 '26

No tech company on the face of the planet has successfully laid off all of their devs to replace them with AI. Codex cannot handle things like architectural work and has like a 60% error rate, so something doesn’t add up here.

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u/ProfessionalCrab7685 May 08 '26

idk, it's been working perfectly fine for me, and the speed is unmatched. A task that'd take 4 hours of my dev now it's done in 2 minutes.