It really is. I'm an industrial designer. I've designed super yachts, athletic tracking devices for rugby, boxing and American football, EV chargers and more.

I'm a huge technology nerd (obviously in a Redditor). Through my career I've watched simulation software get smarter and eliminate dedicated engineers, rendering software become so easy you don't need a visualiser, CAD software become so easy you don't need a draughtsman, Product lifecycle software eliminate QA and NPI engineers. That entire department I've just described is literally now just me. I've been a solo designer for nearly 90% of my >10 year career.

I've started using AI in my concept generation and soon AI will eliminate the need for a separate Industrial Designer and consolidate it back into a single role doing the above stuff I mentioned plus concepting. It doesn't need to be the best in the world. Just good enough and a user needs less and less skill as time goes on.

Soon, I won't have render software, it'll be a rough base model and I tell it what to make it look like. Like Vizcom does right now.

Photoshop, I'll upload a photo and describe the changes I want.

CAD software I'll outline roughly what I need and then an AI Will generate the design for me Like Autodesk Generative design .

>No it isn’t

You're too late. It's already changed the landscape for design and I'm telling you now it'll change it forever to come.