Yesterday, I came across a post from a fellow designer having big feelings about AI. You know, our soon-to-be overlords, the ones we’re all nervously side-eyeing while they spit out logos, scripts, and the occasional deeply questionable cat meme.

The post was full of concern about the shrinking creative industry, how jobs seem to be vanishing faster than biscuits at a tea break, and whether we’re all just a few updates away from being replaced by a very smug algorithm.

And honestly? I get it.

Haven’t We Been Here Before?

Reading that post took me right back to my first year as a designer. The doom and gloom narrative was eerily familiar.

Back then, industry veterans were convinced that technology would swoop in, pixel-perfect, and render us all obsolete. Spoiler alert: it didn’t. (Though Clippy did give it a good go.)

New tools have always disrupted the way we work. The shift from hand-drawn typography to digital fonts? That was terrifying once. The jump from print to digital? Equally panic-inducing. And yet, here we are, still designing, still creating, still finding ways to push our ideas forward.

AI Isn’t the Enemy—Stagnation Is

Here’s the thing: change is a constant. The tools evolve, trends shift, and yes, AI might try to rewrite this post better than me. But what remains is us.

Our creativity. Our perspective. Our ability to adapt.

These are the things that make designers, writers, and creatives irreplaceable. AI can mimic, but it can’t originate. It can generate, but it doesn’t feel. The real magic happens in the human touch—the nuance, the storytelling, the ability to break the rules in ways that make something truly special.

Befriend the Chaos

Instead of fearing AI, why not befriend it? Heck, invite it to the pub and ask what it can teach us.

Because the future doesn’t belong to those who resist change. It belongs to those who roll up their sleeves and figure out how to collaborate with it.

So, fellow creatives, what’s your game plan for adapting? Are you diving into AI tools to see how they can work for you? Or are you just waiting for ChatGPT to sort that out too?