AI Is Not the Answer

The deck is a talk for designers on where we are with AI and what it is costing us. It opens with the landscape: the mood in the field, how much AI is actually in use, the job cuts it gets blamed for, and the money going in without coming back. Then the cost: budgets for tokens and not for people, the entry level going quiet, and the specialty we lost. Then the common threads: why you have to teach it everything, the steps no tool replaces, and what it cannot know.

Then who is accountable: who approves it, who carries it, who benefits, and what rule applies when nobody speaks up. Then the examples: Starbucks, Deloitte, PocketOS and twenty more, every one preventable with a baseline, a review, a fact check, an owner, a gate or a meter. It closes on what this means: it is a suit, never the superhero; learn it anyway; how I work with it; and six questions to ask out loud. Every number links to its source.