Free Lesson
Stop AI Vibing & Start Spec-Driven Designing with Claude
Part of The Full Stack Career
60 min
Sep 10, 2026 12:00 PM
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What you'll learn
Break the habits that come from treating AI as a chatbot
Recognize the chatbot reflexes that keep you re-explaining yourself, and learn what to do instead.
Pilot AI instead of babysitting it
Specify the workflow and the parameters AI works inside, so you're directing the work rather than guessing if it lands.
Build AI its own workspace, not another chat window
Design an agent that carries your methodology — gating stages, producing documentation, driving the work forward.
Thrive as a designer while everyone becomes technicians
Turn systems thinking into your advantage: build AI systems you pilot, instead of chasing the next tool.
Why this topic matters
Designers are using AI every day and it still isn't giving them what they want. Close, but not right, so you re-explain, re-prompt, and end up re-doing it yourself. This isn't a prompting problem, it's that you're chatting with AI instead of piloting it. This session reveals the bad habits behind that gap, what piloting actually looks like, and why designers are better equipped for it than anyone as existing systems thinkers.
