AI is making previously impractical ideas possible.

Yana designed a Ruth Asawa–inspired gown featuring large sculptural forms that would have been extremely difficult to produce before. ✦ AI generated

Yana Welinder · Lenny's Newsletter · 2026-08-17 · original ↗

AI is making previously impractical ideas possible. Yana designed a Ruth Asawa–inspired gown featuring large sculptural forms that would have been extremely difficult to produce before. The limitation was not the lack of 3D printing but the enormous amount of CAD work required to prepare the design. AI removed that bottleneck. Similar bottlenecks are hiding in nearly every industry, often preventing great ideas from being worth pursuing.

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