Taron Ghazaryan

Head of Design at Samsara. Tinkerer, gear head, and wannabe YouTuber.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@JordanGilroy "If you made the site, you most likely have the Figma file" wrong lol every place I've worked at had outdated figma files. The problem will get worse as people design and ship through AI tools.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@samzliu @ulidabess @Saboo_Shubham_ These are just theories and predictions at this point.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

New job description.. slop reviewer

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

As the saying goes.. you can’t buy taste.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

How do I make sure my Claude Design / pencil(dot)dev / etc has taste when it designs stuff.

1. Is there some design skill file I can use?
2. Should I always get it to create a design system first?

Designers reading this tweet you can roll your eyes but then give me some tips :)

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@mitsuhiko For a long time, people in leadership roles climbed the corporate ladder based on the size of their team. It created an incentive to hire needlessly. The ones good at politics climbed the ranks. This trend forces them to be good at their craft now.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

AI can create decent looking UI today, but that's a baseline expectation of designers (like writing code for eng).

Organizations that do not understand the value of design (like this post) will see the AI generated designs and think they're great. Product UX will erode over time

[Gokul Rajaram @gokulr]

DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY

I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis.

Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant.

Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today.

If you're a designer, I think you have two choices:
1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business.
2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder.

Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop.

I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

non-designers who have never designed anything: "designers are cooked!"

people who have worked in code, want to work in code, always will work in code: "future of design is code!"

companies selling tokens: "move that button 4px with a prompt!"

designers:

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@chamath AI is being positioned as a means to replace white collar labor. There are billboards in SF with that exact message. Layoffs are being credited with AI productivity.. Can’t expect people to be supportive of that.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

Good models will run on any decent hardware in the near future. That’s what pops the ai bubble.

[Adrien Grondin @adrgrondin]

The new Qwen 3.5 by @Alibaba_Qwen running on-device on iPhone 17 Pro.

Qwen 3.5 beats models 4 times its size, has strong visual understanding, and can toggle reasoning on or off.

The 2B 6-bit model here is running with MLX optimized for Apple Silicon.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@dearlensform @yiningkarlli No worries! Looking forward to it

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

I'm fairly sure opus 4.6 in Antigravity is a dumbed down model compared to cursor. The same prompt gets better results in cursor.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@dearlensform @yiningkarlli hey any updates on this? would love to try some ideas with it :)

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@panoskarabelas Gotta simulate firing order, header lengths, resonators, etc to get close to a realistic sound

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@dearlensform @yiningkarlli I would love to play around with it. this looks amazing

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@harushika47 @grok which keyboard is that

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

Vibe coding has made me a more thorough communicator

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

Old PRD - product requirements doc
New PRD - prompt ready directions

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

This is actually how I start PM interviews and after 100s of calls, I have rarely heard someone explain it in 1 sentence.

[signüll @signulll]

i have never heard a simple clear one line explanation of what a product manager actually does which is kind of hilarious.

what is it?

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@jasonyuan Reading a block of text is one of the most inefficient ways of consuming information. What he means is, there's no need for UI as AI will do the task for you.

If the user needs info, text is not the best way to communicate that.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@AlexTudun are these 3d models you rendered or image gen?