Comment by grugagag
7 hours ago
> For every person who gets to make creative decision, there are hundreds upon hundreds of people whose sole purpose is slavish adherence to those decisions.
Yes but at least those decisions come from some or one person not just an algorirhm
As an engineer and artist, I think a better comparison is painting -> photography. It took quite a while for photography to be considered an art, since it removed so much of the creative control from the artist. But it replaced them with new and different skills, particularly the value of curation.
Some skills, like framing, values, balance, etc. become even more important differentiators. Yes, it is much different. But as long as humans are in the loop, there is an opportunity for human communication.
As a software engineer you still make the hard decisions and let claude type them out for you. Isn't it similar?
I mean, yeah. No matter how you feel about AI and creativity, having AI make the creative choices is dumb and backwards.