I think the most interesting creative tools going forward won’t try to be everything. They’ll choose a lane, express a point of view, and build an experience around it. In this world, the tool becomes a collaborator with strong opinions about what good work looks like. You don’t choose tools purely for functionality. You choose them like you’d foll... See more

But did I really make anything? Or did I just consume via prompts? That distinction - between creation and consumption used to feel obvious. Am I filming or watching a movie? Now it doesn’t.

As generative tools become faster, more aesthetic, more automatic, “creation” starts to feel like consumption. Creative tools stop behaving like neutral platfor... See more

But with generative AI neutrality is a myth. The defaults shape the work. The training data always shows. I can tell it's a Lovable site - same iconography, same yellow-tinted generated image. Same with Midjourney. The tools and models leave a fingerprint.