I know full well that all I can do is advocate for the small team I can retain. While the fear that we are all looked at as numbers looms over our everyday.

I feel gross just being aware that these conversations are happening. Seeing the dev chats on the sidelines and weighing out what it means for me and those who work with me.

Companies I've worked for who tell me there's no room to expand the teams, but they have plenty of room for AI testing/ investing to make up for the human work they refuse to hire.

Seeing companies opt for AI programs to replace art and skills that humans have worked years to hone. Decades suffered to break into industries that treat artists like fodder for the chipper. It's all so depressing.

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

‘Where do you get your ideas from’ that authors often dread focuses on this misunderstanding. Ideas are easy.
Ideas spring from ideas. Ideas create a more complex ecosystem that prompts the evolution of…