Bogdan says AI screening pushes portfolios toward decisions, not polish

Balint Bogdan's essay argues that AI has made a polished portfolio table stakes, not a differentiator, since hiring signal has shifted toward visible judgment rather than finished screens. He cites Anthropic's Jenny Wen, who says mocking up and prototyping used to eat 60 to 70 percent of a designer's time and now takes 30 to 40 percent, freeing time for the decisions that supposedly now matter more. He also notes a stat that 78 percent of recruiters use AI screening before a human looks at a portfolio, and responds by restructuring his own: leading with decisions, showing what failed, cutting down to three deep case studies rather than a broad gallery.