WHY IS AI BAD AT DESIGN?

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

AI struggles with design because, unlike code, design has no automatic way to verify if an output is correct, forcing reliance on slow, subjective human judgment. This subjectivity pulls AI toward generic, "average" outputs, worsened by scarce design training data and models generating interfaces blindly, without truly seeing what they create. While vision-based feedback loops and better models may narrow some gaps, the subjective nature of taste remains a structural limit, meaning humans will still be essential for genuine design judgment and originality.