As AI tools collapse the walls between design and engineering, we ask whether we are truly ready to lead as primary business protagonists rather than secondary executors. While Kike Peña predicts a fantastic voyage into 2026, we weigh this against Jeff Sauro's caution that AI remains a research assistant, not a replacement for human judgment, and Dan Saffer's argument that machines still fail to define the right problems. We explore this tension through real community debates on abandoning Figma for code and the ethical dangers of manipulative design to determine if our shift toward stakeholder alignment is a sustainable evolution or a dangerous blur of strategy and execution.
