Spot on. AI is a force multiplier, but its impact is capped by our own skill. We can automate the execution, but we’ll never be able to automate the human-centric intent behind the design.
Tim Slade said something last week that stopped me mid-scroll: "eLearning authoring tools as we know them are dead." He built a Rise-like authoring tool with a single prompt using Claude Design by Anthropic. In under an hour ‼️ As someone who's managed the full Articulate 360 production cycle, I felt that. I know exactly how long those things used to take. But here's the thing: the tool was never the hard part. The thinking was. Claude Design can generate a functional learning module in minutes. But it can't tell you whether that module should exist in the first place. It can't diagnose that the real problem isn't a knowledge gap — it's a broken process. And it can't measure whether anything changed on the job six weeks later. That's what instructional designers do. That's what learning scientists do. I've been integrating AI into my design workflow since 2021. Every single time, it made production faster. But it never replaced the design thinking. When everyone can build a course in minutes, the competitive advantage isn't building — it's knowing what to build, why, and whether it worked. The floor just got raised. Time to raise the ceiling. Tim Slade — loved the demo. The conversation it started matters even more. #InstructionalDesign #AI #ClaudeDesign #LearningAndDevelopment #eLearning #LearningScience
