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The design industry is in such an early stage of AI evolution that even someone starting today would have a competitive advantage over most current practitioners.

Silber argues that we are all extremely early in the AI design process, making now the best time in history to enter the field. ✦ AI generated

Ian Silber · Lenny's Podcast · 2026-08-16 · original ↗

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You believe this the best time in history to be a designer.

We're all extremely early in this process. There's just a huge opportunity for designers. Nobody should feel behind right now. I think that if you literally started today, you're going to have a leg up on pretty much most people. There's just so much opportunity to change the way you work to make great things.

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12:02is trying to design or get into design whether again like if you're early career or late career or you never even like actually design anything but you've been thinking about it is like we're all figuring this out as we go. Nobody has like some perfect answer um about the how the design process should work. Um and it's whatever you think is working today will probably change again. And so

12:29I think what's encouraging about this is that nobody should feel like behind right now. I think that if you literally started today, you're going to have a leg up on pretty much most people. Um and uh just really thinking about like how you can just make great stuff. Um and uh there's just so much opportunity to change the way you work work or to to just to make great things. and [snorts]

12:54what we think is like really cutting edge today will look so archaic in you know a year let alone a month right and that's something I' I've learned you know I've been at open air for three years and I think about the stuff that they you know we were working on when we when I first joined um I mean I remember getting a demo of of like our our early

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