What I'd Tell You About AI Tools (If We Were Having Coffee)

You're thinking about using AI for design work. Maybe you already started. Someone told you it's the future, and they're probably right, but let me tell you what nobody mentions.

I spent six months in 2025 using AI tools daily. Made me faster. Also made me worse. By June, I couldn't defend my own design decisions anymore. Wrote a book about it: Looks Good to Me: On AI Sycophancy, Context Loss, and Inverted Baselines (Apple Books). It's free. This is what I'd tell you if we were having coffee.