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For years, software design has been built around control. Interfaces relied on clear cause and effect. A button triggered an action, a slider adjusted a value. Designers could map every step, test every state, and predict how users would respond. AI breaks that pattern. Instead of executing an instruction, it interprets intent. The same input can lead to several valid outcomes, each shaped by...

Why a professional presentation designer might not work for you.
We spent thousands of dollars on professional presentation designers, and yet none of them came close to what we could create ourselves on Alai. It took 4 days to even get the first draft, and then they allowed only 2-3 iterations at max. Even after multiple iterations the decks looked terrible. They did not understand our story, so they put emphasis on the wrong things and used random stock...


