pedagogy

kasey @kaseyklimes · 4h i've taught design students for over a decade, but last night was the first time I've spent time in the classroom since the wide adoption of claude code, etc. the distance between idea and reality has completely collapsed, which puts the new bottleneck in stark relief: clarity of thought. it used to be that weak thinking could be obscured by impressive execution, while strong thinking could get lost in poor execution. now, the execution is so universally impressive that it recedes into the background to reveal the thinking: what problem are you solving? for who? how do you know it's a real problem? how do you know that your solution addresses it—not just in theory but in the real world? can you explain your idea clearly? this is *incredibly* hard, but it's exciting that students can now focus on it without worrying about pixels and syntax. I think it's a huge opportunity for design education to meet the moment, should it so choose.