This is typical, we are generally not able to understand the gradient of the curve we’re on. If you see artifacts now,[1] they’ll be gone in 6 months. The pace of innovation and improvement in AI assisted graphic tools is astounding. I’d say don’t get behind but unless it’s your profession you already are.
It’s natural to be conservative and want your skills to be as necessary as they used to be, but that’s just not the reality. The good news is that any skills you have in an area where AI is becoming prominent may give you a leg up on how to use those AI tools to best effect. It’s all about getting on it sooner than later so that you’re not stuck in antiquated slow ways of doing things.
I just had an object lesson in this when I updated my inkscape hershey font list. My gut was “write a php script to make it” which turned into “ask GPT to make the php script, and I’ll edit it” to “wait a second, give it an example of what I want and the list of items, and have it build the whole thing.” It took about 3 seconds. Literally. My old-school programming skills would have been fun to bust out but they are entirely supplanted for a one-off project like that.
which is debatable. The dark shadow on the W is necessary to get a good 2.5-D engrave ↩︎