seeing lots of discussion lately on the impact of AI in graphics programming and interactive/coding communities. what used to require technical expertise, years of study, arcane knowledge has now been reduced to a quick prompt. it’s a hard pill to swallow; there’s a joy and intellectual stimulation in solving complex exercises with hand-written code, but I suspect developing in that way will very soon be obsolete & automated (or already is). 😓 for what it’s worth, I still believe that “think bigger” is a good way to stay sane and a step ahead. not just working on something more technical, that a future model might beat, but working on something you find ambitious, that you might never have even considered previously. also, it’s worth remembering: AI is a jagged intelligence: it still sucks at making art, coming up with original ideas, writing good prose, having good aesthetics/taste, doing any kind of graphic design. AI knowledge needs to be extracted: even if a future model can solve a hard problem, for now we still need humans to “mine” and surface these answers. AI models today are large and inefficient: there’s a lot of value in developing smaller representations, and bringing them into constrained environments (interaction, games, web, embedded systems).