Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…Yeah, so definitely, definitely. And we saw this last year, by the way, as well. We are seeing that designers and researchers are the most negative. And just to clarify what I mean by that, what you can see in this slide is that when it comes to AI identity shifts, designers and researchers are the highest in feeling either destabilized or diminished. When it comes to emotions like feeling tired, overwhelmed or anxious, researchers and designers lead the pack in a negative way, of course. When it comes to worries about losing one's job to AI, again, researchers and designers are pretty much as high as one can be. And then finally, when it comes to these NPS-like scores of whether people would recommend their role to a friend or to a colleague, researchers and designers are the least likely to recommend entering their role at this point. We talked about this earlier. I don't know how much more there's to add here. Basically again, it's not that this function is in big trouble necessarily. It's this is how people in that function are feeling right now. I'm not objective because I'm part of the research community and the design community. If I may, I just want to tell people that ... In this community that I truly and honestly believe that there's never been a more important time for our roles to manifest in the products that we build. You've talked about this with many people, Lenny, in previous interviews about concept like taste, about concepts like craft, about concepts like quality. I'm thinking of people like Karri Linear's CEO who talked so beautifully about the importance of quality and how you build products. I'm thinking about people like-…

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