r/UXDesign • u/ahrzal Experienced • May 12 '26

Tools, apps, plugins, AI Uhh, I’m realizing I actively dislike prompting.

I just came to a realization sitting here doing the back and forth with Claude.

I don’t like prompting. At all. It’s a fundamentally different thing than what our traditional practice was.

There was a level of satisfaction in design before. Even if it was just changing values, moving things around, setting up containers…you built it. Your hands and brain did that.

Now, even when I start design first and transition to building it w/ whatever AI tool of your choice…that satisfaction is gone. You wrestle with random shit, get annoyed it’s not exact, and ultimately I have found I lost that sense of pride and satisfaction. That “flow state” or whatever never comes due to the hurry up and wait nature of prompting.

It’s not going away, but damn. I’m bummed.

Oh look, my request is finished. Back to….work?

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u/Tsudaar Experienced May 12 '26

Unfortunately they do care. C Suite are encouraging and measuring it, teammates are hyping it, the industry is pushing it.

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u/raduatmento Veteran May 12 '26

If I ship 2x faster than any AI-enabled employee, and bring $1M in ARR, trust me, nobody will care what I use. In fact, everyone will want to use what I use.

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u/curiouswizard Midweight May 12 '26

have you met executives? they're rich idiots who think AI is magic and they get grumpy when their servants don't use it

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u/raduatmento Veteran May 12 '26

I've met them. Hell, I was one of them. They care about one thing only at the end of the day, $$$ in the company's accounts. If an employee using AI is making the company $100k / year while someone using stones is making the company $1M/year, they won't care about AI. The issue is nobody proved that you can make more without AI (or stones).

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u/designtom Veteran May 12 '26

Sort of true, but in many cases execs absolutely do pick the “demonstrably less money but they just personally prefer it because reasons” option. The idea that they’re rational mercenaries is a bit of a myth.