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Lovinsky: AI UI homogenization will make human taste and creativity stand out

Noam Lovinsky · 20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman · Jan 16, 2026 · at 15:19

Noam Lovinsky is CPO at Superhuman. Host Harry Stebbings asked if reliance on AI agents to execute product specs would lead to normalized, generic software products.

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“I actually think that this will lead to creativity and certainly like taste standing out more than ever, because I think you're going to have this like flattening where you are going to have a lot of things that just like, oh, you know, here we go. It's this, it's the same dialogue. It's the same flow like this. This is what works. These things have learned that this is what works and this is what they're putting out. But that actually, I think gives more room for the standouts to shine for the things that kind of have that taste and creativity to shine.”

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