This is my reasoning about trusting authors rather than judge the tools they used.
replyAgreed, and I don't care what tools someone uses. But if all they have to show is an AI generated README and pile of slop code with no sign of any human choices or curation, "don't judge the tools" doesn’t really apply.
replyIt’s not “using a tool” when you farm out 99.999% of decisions to coin flips besides a random initial seed set by a few sentence prompt.
It’s like asking some guy “make me a project that does X” and then claiming you curated it and the other guy was just a tool.
hey sooo, not sure if it matters, but I went to art school and have been a designer for 8+ years; so definitely made a lot of human choices here. hope that helps lol!
replyIt does and I appreciate that. Really don’t mean to discourage your creativity, just explaining why it didn’t sit right with me.
replyThe main thing is the presentation. Unrepresentative AI generated image at the top, AI generated readme, AI prose in every file I opened. It’s hard to tell which decisions were actually yours.
It’s the same sort of feel to me as a novel with an interesting original plot, but written in generic AI prose.
I want to hear your voice, not the AI’s.
I don't doubt there's a human touch, but the point is art school and being a designer are orthogonal to what would have made this project impressive in the past. This project interfaces with deep and partially undocumented macOS internals. A few years ago this project would have been a pet project of a master systems programmer.
replyI don't think that making software should be gatekept. I suppose it's a bit melancholy that software has to be appreciated differently now.
Love what you did. Keep creating with the tools you have. Just like you did in art school. Don't get demotivated nor try to justify in today's mood.
replyThat last line rings a bell in how corp works sometimes.
replyHonest question: do you think art’s value is proportional to the time it took to create it? Like a painting that took hundreds of hours is necessarily better art than a minimalist work that might have taken a few hours, or less?
replyNo, I think the value is in how much of and how well the human experience is compressed into the work (and how well it decompresses in the mind of the beholder).
replyNot op but I don't think it's proportional, it's more like an extra layer of value on top of the creation's innate value.
replySo...sentiment and bias?
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