Panic over AI tracks how replaceable the work already was

Nurkhon Akhmedov's piece leans on one worked example: a 32-screen fintech checkout redesign that was technically flawless but, in his account, never showed a moment where the designer weighed two reasonable options and chose the harder one. He notes AI can now produce that same kind of output in minutes. His claim isn't that AI is coming for designers generally, but that panic tracks how replaceable a given designer's actual output already was before AI arrived. It's a useful reframe if it holds, though the account leans on a single case, so how far the pattern generalizes beyond that one portfolio is left unaddressed.