---
id: use-ai-need-less-ai
kind: work
title: "Use AI to Need Less AI"
work_kind: "essay"
date: "2026-07-26"
url: "https://southleft.substack.com/p/use-ai-to-need-less-ai"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/use-ai-need-less-ai.md
---

# Use AI to Need Less AI

A model can be talked around. A schema can't.

## Edges

- about -> Design tokens and DTCG, Deterministic gates, Deterministic spec extraction, Documentation schema
- <- authored <- TJ Pitre