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Martin Wright lays out a deliberately slow approach to AI adoption in design work – wait six months, let early adopters surface the real lessons, then evaluate on your own terms. He splits design into inputs, outputs, and the synthesis layer in between, arguing that AI’s pull toward average solutions makes it most dangerous precisely where judgment matters most. Wright references Anthropic’s 2026 study showing developers using AI scored 17% lower on comprehension tests, which he takes as evidence for keeping the thinking work human. The design community has been split between enthusiastic adoption and quiet resistance for over a year now, and this piece lands squarely in the camp that treats restraint as a professional skill rather than a limitation.
