Designers (particularly those in Government):

You're busy tinkering with AI, oh-so-thrilled to be on the cutting edge of technology, trying to find use cases for it in complex, difficult problem spaces (spoiler alert: there are no uses cases and you're just burning the planet).

Meanwhile, Japan is busy doing the hard work. They've just celebrated one year of ending the use of floppy disks. Yes, floppy disks.

Their Digital Agency scrapped 1,034 regulations governing the use of floppy disks. Let me spell that out:

One thousand and thirty four policy changes.
One thousand and thirty four regulation edits.
One thousand and thirty four bits of hard, dense, unsexy work.

That's the work the matters. You can't just point AI at a problem like floppy disks and write a clever prompt to make it go away.

You have to do the hard work.

Do
the
Hard
Work

(I think I'm going to turn that phrase into a poster and put in on the wall behind me. Let me know if that's a good idea and you would want one too! Because that will 100% increase the likelihood of me actually doing it. No, I'm not lazy, I just know myself; lots of ideas, too many to execute them all.)