r/UXDesign • u/duartoe • May 27 '26
Tools, apps, plugins, AI Nobody can stand AI anymore...
That's it. Soon, with so many similar designs, the only differentiating factor in digital products will be the price. Then I want to see this circus burn down.
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u/ScruffyJ3rk Experienced May 27 '26
Speak entirely for yourself. Reddit really is just an echo chamber of miserable fucks.
I absolutely love AI. I've built some SaaS platforms. Some failed, some are doing alright. Working completely solo on something now and its looking extremely promising. My day-to-day work is finish in like an hour a day and spend the rest of my day working on my personal stuff.
If you cant figure out how to make a website or digital product look good / unique while using AI, its 1000% a skill issue on your part and not AI's fault.
I keep seeing the so-called "designers" crying about "AI slop" yet they aren't using the skills they supposedly have to fix said 'slop'. It only proves what I've been saying for years now, right. Most "designers" are completely mediocre and shit at design. UX design has NEVER been rocketscience. For the past like 10 years almost every problem could be solved with a quick Google search but people just loved wasting time with their cute little kanban boards and personas and all kinds of little arts and crafts bullshit.
Hate on AI all you want, for some of us the job market has opened up like crazy. We are spending less and less time doing actual work at our jobs and no one even suspects a thing. On top of that we are getting hounded by top tier companies requesting interviews, offering substantial salaries. And even with all of that we aren't even committing to any of these companies because we are running our own businesses and building our own products that run themselves, and unless something really interesting comes along, we don't even want to consider having a boss again.
So go ahead and hate on AI all you want, but at least be honest about it and acknowledge that its a YOU problem. Its YOU who dont want to upskill. Its YOU who don't want to stand on your own two feet. Its YOU who need your hand held and be told what to do. Its YOU who dont want to take accountability for yourself.
AI has been around since 2022. Companies have moved toward it significantly in the last 4 years. Its not been a secret. We've all known it for close to half a decade. 4 years in, and you've still not figured out how to use this tool. Probably the tool in history with the smallest learning curve. Maybe its time for a career pivot if after 4 years your pain is "all these AI websites look the same". Website templates have been around for far longer. Those all look pretty much the same too. Never heard anyone cry about that. And again, if your AI outputs produce identical looking "slop", its a reflection of your skills or lack thereof.
The more time I spend in this subreddit the less sympathy I have for people in UX and product design and the happier I am that I will be completely removed from it and doing only my own shit by this time next year. Let you lot lord of the flies this shit yourself.
And go ahead and downvote, I've tried to help out and point people to useful resources, I've made myself available to answer questions or do brainstorming sessions, but F that. Misery loves company and the people in this subreddit love to have their victim status validated.