Suff Syed is a Product & Design Leader Building across AI Frontiers at Microsoft Research.

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How Not to Get Replaced by AI

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Why People are Buying
into AI Doomerism

Part One - 5 mins

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What Most People are
Oblivious About AI Hype

Part Two - 7 mins

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A Survival Guide for an
AI-first World

Part Three - 15 mins

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Latest Writing from the
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AI is Collapsing How We Build— and Rewiring Org Charts

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Sour FIG— Figma’s
Future is Uncertain Despite IPO Hype

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The Case for
Apple Buying OpenAI for $500B

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A New Class of
Software Builders
is Emerging

The End of Design Report

Published in Sept 2023—Over 30k+ downloads

“A much needed intervention
for every designer on the planet”

Suff Syed

An interview on
The Creative Factor

In an AI-powered World Be an Outlier