A lot of instructional designers are frustrated right now because tools like Articulate Storyline keep raising prices. But in this video, I explain why that’s not the biggest shift. The bigger shift is that we’re not going to need tools like Storyline in the same way anymore, because AI is changing what it means to be an instructional designer. More than ever, our role is moving from “designing training” to “designing human performance solutions,” where we first ask what should be automated, what actually requires human skill, and where learning genuinely adds value. I walk through examples from my own business where I’m doing what looks a lot like classic ID work—interviewing team members, identifying friction points, and mapping workflows—but instead of defaulting to training, I’m building AI-augmented systems that remove errors and save time. I share a finance automation example (plus other domains like admissions and content) and then demo an AI role-playing simulation I built in Storyline in under 10 minutes using my simulation builder. The takeaway: IDs who can propose automation + lightweight learning will drive more impact, faster, and stay way more valuable as the field evolves.