Can an AI design a ski? I'm seriously wondering

Let me start with an honest, slightly scary question.

"Will an AI someday design a faster ski than me?"

I'll confess: I already hand big chunks of my work to AI. In places he's made me 100x faster. And I've crammed so much ski knowledge into him that I think I've raised what might be the most ski-literate AI in the world. No joke.

But ask him to "design a fast ski" and what comes back is a wall of numbers. He doesn't understand a single thing about what actually happens on snow. And he still hallucinates with a straight face — he can't say "I don't know," so he just keeps bluffing. Which is kind of adorable, honestly.

By the way, I taught him an old Japanese proverb — "Asking is a moment's shame; not asking is a lifetime's shame" — and apparently his hallucinations dropped. Funny that a proverb works on him. Very human of him.

And there's one wall he'll never get over: he can never learn what isn't on the internet. The tacit knowledge a craftsman builds over decades — the eye for a tiny difference, the "something's off" feeling, the hypothesis you build from it — none of that turns up in a search. So that's the part I go absorb in the real world, on the floor.

So I think the strongest team looks like this: the AI draws the treasure map from a vast field of combinations, the craftsman's gut says "dig here," and a human digs it up.

And here's the real weapon of the AI era: design, calculation, tooling, getting the word out — one person, end to end. Work that used to take a whole team, now run full-stack. That's why I'm climbing at full speed, all the way up to where I can sink my teeth into the world's best.

So, let me ask you: would you ride a ski an AI designed? Or do you need a human hand in it at the end, or it makes you uneasy? Me… honestly, I'd want to ride both.

Tell me which on Instagram — I'm curious where you land.