>when we work at our favorite activities — cooking, gaming, hiking, music-making, writing (to name a few) — the process is often not easy or pleasant or smooth.

>when we work at our favorite activities — cooking, gaming, hiking, music-making, writing (to name a few) — the process is often not easy or pleasant or smooth. This gets to the heart of what bothers me about using LLM to emulate Art. This is the justification people make for using it, but no Artists I know finds making Art consistently unpleasant. Sure, there are times you're blocked or tired but generally in the end you are satisfied or have leaned something helpful from the experience. This is all of life. This is why there is Art. If you just want a pleasant time, you're looking for entertainment, not creative endeavor. Just put on a VR headset and leave making Art to the real Artists. Art is like anything. If you want to get good at it you need to discover how to get dopamine from it and exploit that to habit and mastery. This is how you get in shape, it's how you improve your golf game, how you develop software, raise kids. Yet for some reason humanity wants a cheat code for all of this. Pills to make you skinny, video golf to give you an advantage at the links, top-tier schools to make your kids awesome. We're hellbent on dumping the baby out with the bathwater because we think the point is putting the tub away.