Everyone's asking whether AI will replace designers. It's a boring and wrong question. I bought my first Mac at 26 back in 1992. Used Photoshop 1. Nobody taught me—it didn't exist in schools yet. Same with web design. Same with smartphones. Now, same with AI. The pattern isn't new. The panic is. After three decades of watching tools evolve and render themselves obsolete, I've come to a simple distinction: there's your compass (why you create) and there's your handbook (how you create). The compass stays. The handbook keeps getting rewritten. This is a talk I gave to design students in Cyprus about fear, time as capital, and why the designers who can actually draw will be the most valuable people in the room. No predictions. No manifestos. Just lessons from the laboratory of a working life. The complete speech is here: https://tsevis.com/creativity-in-the-era-of-machine-intellig... I tried to include some further reading useful sources as well to get familiar with applied psychology terms as well as some computer history.