I’ve been slowly warming up to this idea, and I’m not sure I’m totally convinced, but I think it does make sense to compare the web development industry to the

I’ve been slowly warming up to this idea, and I’m not sure I’m totally convinced, but I think it does make sense to compare the web development industry to the art industry here. Have web builders totally replaced developers? No, not at all. It’s definitely cut out the lowest end of the market, but that’s because your local restaurant really doesn’t need more than a squarespace template. But warping a website builder to do something more complex is complicated. To the point where you need to hire someone trained in using that builder tool. Then that person finds the edges of the customizability of that tool and reaches for just writing HTML/CSS/JS. I could totally see a similar trajectory here. We’ll have prompt engineers, and they’ll realize sometimes photoshop is just easier to tweak the output, then maybe they’ll realize it’s easier to prompt for components of an image, and composite them manually… and then we’ve reached a point where it’s just a tool that makes art easier. Though… it still does feel somehow different from web development. Will just have to see how things shake out.