# AI Won’t Save Your Thinking (Q&A)

**URL:** <https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651>\
**Category:** Using AI\
**Created:** [February 18, 2026, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651 "2026-02-18T16:04:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![EricZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/ericz/32/692_2.png) [@EricZ](https://forum.zurb.com/u/EricZ)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2026, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651/21 "2026-02-23T15:04:59Z")

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> [@chris\_becker](#):
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> I feel AI is the most useful early in the ideation process and helpful in pushing ideas in their fledgling state. ie. sketches, notions, crazy ideas. So yeah sketch more with AI.

I wanted to follow up on this. Once you’ve collected you thoughts by sketching and quickly engaging with pen and paper, what might be some examples of quickly using AI to ideate further,

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**Author:** ![MoData](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/modata/32/1182_2.png) [@MoData](https://forum.zurb.com/u/MoData)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651/22 "2026-02-24T01:10:41Z")

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@chris_becker love the idea to keep sketching to keep a designer’s conceptual influence tied to the output. So is the idea to then feed these sketches to AI for it to build upon?

I’m curious what our resident designer/sketcher @EricZ thinks about this tactic, since we’re sketching opportunities across a couple different clients right now?

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**Author:** ![Bryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forum.zurb.com/bryan/32/448_2.png) [@Bryan](https://forum.zurb.com/u/Bryan)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.zurb.com/t/ai-won-t-save-your-thinking-q-a/651/23 "2026-07-01T19:59:43Z")

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Here’s a related Q&A with @jon_daiello, who dives into AI as a thinking tool. CC/ @chris_becker

> [@Mayday, do we have a design thinking problem?](https://forum.zurb.com/t/mayday-do-we-have-a-design-thinking-problem/742):
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> Excited today to be diving into [jon\_daiello](https://forum.zurb.com/admin/users/251/jon_daiello)’s article, [Language Isn’t Thinking](https://www.jondaiello.com/posts/language-isnt-thinking). Jon explores a challenge many of us are running into with AI. Language has become incredibly cheap to produce, but fluent words are no longer reliable evidence that real thinking happened. His main argument is that language is an expression of thinking, not thinking itself. AI can generate polished documents, prototypes, code, and presentations that look like careful reasoning, but polish doesn’t guarantee anyone w…

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