AI took the fun part of my job. I am left with meetings and client fe…
What AI automates first in a designer's job, and why it is often the part they loved. Five job ads read and sorted, what research says about motivation, and a two-column map of the job to choose what you delegate.
You open your week, and the AI has already produced the three screen variants you would have loved to draw. You are left with the minutes, the client follow-up and Thursday's committee. We were promised the opposite: the AI would do the chores and you would keep the creative part. The title is in the first person because it is the question many designers ask quietly, not a testimony. What you leave with: a two-column map of your job (what you enjoy, what weighs on you) and a rule to decide what you hand to the AI. What it changes (designer, PM, PO, scrum master, Design System lead): chores get delegated first, not whatever is easiest to measure. Why now: in early November 2026 Hideo Kojima said that creating by telling a machine "make it", "redo it" does not interest him. In October, half…