--- title: DOC • Allegory of AI | daily.dev description: AI is compared to soy monoculture: efficient, but corrosive to diversity and smaller players. Unlike design tools such as Sketch and Figma, AI was pushed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/doc-allegory-of-ai-oa8d2vtra twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DOC • Allegory of AI | daily.dev og:description: AI is compared to soy monoculture: efficient, but corrosive to diversity and smaller players. Unlike design tools such as Sketch and Figma, AI was pushed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/doc-allegory-of-ai-oa8d2vtra og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oa8d2vTRA.png og:image:alt: DOC • Allegory of AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DOC • Allegory of AI **[DOC](https://daily.dev/sources/doccc)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI is compared to soy monoculture: efficient, but corrosive to diversity and smaller players. Unlike design tools such as Sketch and Figma, AI was pushed top-down as an ideology of efficiency and optimization. This has made designers perform speed instead of advocating craft and critical thinking. The alternative offered is to reclaim AI for personal creative projects rather than performative work output, or to resist 'Big Soy and Big AI' entirely. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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