DOC: AI didn't kill design jobs, it exposed a decade of lost technical fluency

DOC's argument is that AI didn't cause design's decline, it just made the evidence public. The piece stacks up specifics: Figma Sites generated 210 WCAG violations on its own demo site, Builder.ai's $1.5 billion 'AI' turned out to be 700 engineers coding by hand before it collapsed in May 2025, and entry-level design hires at Big Tech have dropped 50% since 2019. The throughline is that tools sold as democratizing design actually reward people who already understand APIs, accessibility, and data models, and punish those who don't. Anecdotes carry more weight than data here (the Airbnb hearts-over-stars claim isn't sourced), but the layoffs and violation counts are checkable and land hard.