I’ve been extremely hesitant to offer any “AI” courses so far—especially for designers I personally think most of what’s been going on in this space is pretty questionable. Not to mention I have a lot of mixed feelings about the hype cycles around LLM tech in general.

That said I do personally use them in my work. I’ve never spoken about it publicly, and I don’t intend to start now, because I don’t want to add to the noise. But I do know that for me personally, having an LLM at my fingertips in my code editor has been the only really valuable use case I’ve encountered so far in playing around with these tools.

I’ve tried messing with Figma Make and Lovable and some of the other usual suspects targeted at designers and non-coders, and to be blunt, I find them frustrating and unsatisfying.

So my question here at the beginning of 2026 for any designers who are out there: would you be interested in taking the plunge into the world of working with an LLM to write code? I have some roughly-formed thoughts on a course or a workshop to work with designers to build some code literacy, and potentially even to build their own tools to scratch their own itches, or to work on projects that overlap with dev stuff like design systems, or even just to be able to play around and think about software design differently.

At this stage, I’m really just curious if anyone is interested in this stuff, and what you’re curious and/or motivated about?

Leave a comment and let me know!