Why AI Lags at Design

Andrew Ambrosino's four reasons frontier models are worse at visual/product design than at code: design is hard to grade (no clean reward like 'does it compile'), it sat outside the AI-research flywheel labs optimized for, it rewards novelty where code rewards known patterns, and it hides a design↔code abstraction layer (a rebrand is 263 components on the surface, semantic relationships underneath)