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Design careers in the Age of AI: specialize or generalize?
The rise of AI in digital design is triggering a crisis of professional identity, as the apparent return of the “generalist” risks replacing deep expertise with superficial, AI-generated outputs that homogenize solutions and reduce innovation. The argument is not against AI itself, but warns that real value comes from using AI to deepen learning and cross-disciplinary understanding while preserving strong professional trajectories, rather than outsourcing judgment, thinking, and identity to probabilistic tools.
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