If design were the true differentiator, everyone would be using Mac and Keynote. Not Windows and PowerPoint. Distribution matters. And AI speeds up distribution for anyone with an idea. People with ideas don’t need to hire designers anymore to distribute their idea at scale. All they need is ‘npx shadcn@latest init’.

Today, every designer faces a similar fork: Do you want to push pixels for the rest of your life—or do you want to change the world with your ideas?

If you choose the latter, the tools are finally here. And the future is up for grabs.

But the direction is becoming clearer: traditional web interfaces and even apps as we know them may soon begin to fade away.

The long-term vision is fully personalized and dynamically generated user experiences. The entire traditional role of product designers, creating static UI in Silicon Valley offices that work for billions of users, is becoming increasingly irrelevant; when the Agent can simply generate the UI it needs for every single user.