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I've been overhauling my parent's backyard. Mostly it's cleaning up decade's worth of clutter. From there there's regenerative visions for mulch, native plants, and intentional areas for life humans and critters alike. I'm learning a ton. What a great displacement for my creative energy with the added benefit of being physically demanding.

I'd add to your comment that AI is the thousand-ton cherry on top of the perfect storm. Covid destroyed our professional communities. Work doesn't and won't look like how it was pre-2020. AI just makes everything super weirder. It's hard, as a human, to cope.

by jkdufair2 hours ago|

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This was my initial reaction as well. I have been thoroughly invested in the craft of software engineering for 3+ decades. From the blog posts mentioned in the all the way back to Byte magazine at the library as a 10 year old. But those days appear to be perhaps behind us now, as suggested in the article. I am grieving it, despite the fact I have embraced LLMs for creating software.

But I refuse to use LLMs for things like making music. I like your term "purely human". There's no place for fancy statistical engines in human art. Art belongs to human communities and human culture. Which is where, apparently, I will continue to find my refuge if not my living.

by Karrot_Kream2 hours ago|

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I am quite pro AI for various reasons, but for this reason I just don't see low effort AI art really taking off beyond memes, corporate promotional material, and porn. The value of art is the humanity behind it. It's the reason abstract modern painting continues to be valued despite many folks finding its absolute skill level to be lower than, say, the impressionists or modernists of yore.

by chubot2 hours ago|

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Yeah, I'm thinking of the one time I was in a band where we gelled musically, and I noticed I started writing more/better music subconsciously. And a particular type of music that would fit with the band.

I think it's not always a voluntary response. If you're involved in some kind of social situation, your mind automatically points a certain way.

If you lack an enriching situation, then your mind might just get lost !