Tim Stevens

And it's an amazing piece of artwork.

It really is.

It's not being lost, but it certainly is a little bit less common than it used to be.

Not yet, but I definitely think that we're at a point where it's going to change the industry in a pretty significant way.

Like I said, I don't think anyone is too upset if we can take a simulated car crash or internal run from an overnight process to a five-minute process.

I think that's good for everybody.

But if you get to the point where, you know, new recruits, new people who are coming out of design school can't find work because a lot of those early tasks were those sorts of things that are being automated now.

You know, the task of creating a 3D model from a sketch or improving a sketch and making it look more realistic.

Those are the kind of things that you would...

take some kind of a new recruit and give it to them so that they can kind of figure out the way that the process goes forward.

The more that you automate those tasks, the more that you make this process, you know, digitized and simulated, the harder it is for someone to come out of school and enter into design to the point where you've only got, you know, senior designers working on the later stages of design.

And that I think is my big concern.

You know, how do you maintain that pipeline of fresh new minds coming out of design schools and into these design houses and

while you're also taking away some of these low-level tasks that they've been basically tasked with training on.

That, I think, is my big concern, and I haven't heard of a good answer from anybody there in terms of how they're going to keep that pipeline healthy.

But it's the same thing in software development and in other areas as well, where those low-level tasks are kind of going away.

They're being replaced by AI, and there's really no ladder for recruits to climb up anymore.

Yeah, and that's how I got into tech journalism was rewriting press releases basically and putting them into more easy ways to parse them for casual consumers.

And that's a task that AI can do very well.

So yeah, how do you maintain that?