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Can AI be good at design?

Found on 6 September 2026 via Tim Ferriss 1

Anshu Chimala, who led engineering and design teams at Apple for 12 years, argues that AI models aren’t bad at design — we’re just prompting them into design-by-committee. Because LLMs predict the most likely next token, they default to the blandest possible choices; this piece lays out an end-to-end process for pushing past that toward genuinely distinctive work.

Can AI be good at design?

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