DIY Software, Where Betting Markets May Take Us, & What Makes Art
I think we’ll realize that the early text-to-image “prompt-based” era of GenAI undermined creativity while the “controls” era unleashed human creativity in unimaginable ways. the tools evolve, but creative vision, precision, taste, and skills will be more vital than ever before.
Went to a Sublime community talk today, which centered around how AI should or shouldn’t be integrated into the platform. I shared the idea that “creating over consuming” could be a guiding value. It’s a check you can use against every feature: even if this AI-generated summary is radically good, radically convenient, and everyone loves it, does it
... See moreOf course, the reality is more complex, and it’s better to think in terms of automation and autocomplete than vertical software and replacing designers, but whole layers of grunt work will be removed, just as they were with GUIs and SQL.
Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 547
Use the tools if you must. But a better use of your extra energy — such as it is — is to live the gap between human and AI. Can an AI gather, synthesize, calculate, and even speculate faster than we can? Yes. Can it do all those things better than we can? Maybe. Can it be more interesting, unexpected, artful, or meaningful? Well that’s just a matte... See more
The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions
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