Whether it’s technology (VR/social media) or creativity (AI writing), my stance is similar: the process to mastery is embodied, slow, and worth it. The tool is never the end in itself, it’s a means for your own development. If it’s not an augmenter of “leisure” (nature, friendships, art, culture, psyche), then what’s it for?

Writing code from scratch is gone. This was the most exciting part of the profession. Now what remains are debugging/fixing. The same concerns graphical design (original character design in games is gone), writing music (new melodies can be generated by clicking "refresh" and then improved), literature. You never start from scratch anymore. Which i