Fuck AI

Well said. It's also related to why people have the old saying: you should buy proper boots and spend some money on them. Also related to Sam Vimes theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

And it's tricky to get it right. A cheap job is often the more expensive one and vice versa. Also in programming.

I recently saw some Youtube video from someone who said he was an artist, doing video work, advertisements etc. And he loves his job and doing a good job. And he can't earn money with that any more, since someone else will do it on his iPhone, do the post-processing in two hours on some modern video editor and chage a tenth of the price (or so). So there isn't a big market for a freelancer with a $10,000 camera spending lots of hours on color-grading and getting details perfect...

I mean I totally get that. In the old days this wasn't a thing. Now it is and you don't need quality, you need some Insta reel twice a week for your company to stay relevant and quality doesn't matter with those. I feel this itself isn't the problem. But it's going to become a big issue once there aren't many experts, professionals and artists left. Because occasionally people need something robust or nice and with substance to it.