Claude

The more I watch people use AI for visual work, the more I think many of them are starting from the wrong question. The question most people ask is: how do I get AI to generate better-looking images? But I think the more useful question is: do I actually need a picture, or do I need something that can still be edited, reused, and inserted into a workflow afterward? That is not semantics. That is an efficiency question. ...

Lately I have been feeling more and more strongly that one of the most overrated things in AI is the release of a new model itself. Not long ago, every new version triggered the same reaction: how much smarter is it, how much stronger is it, how high will it climb on the charts. That reflex is starting to wear out. It is not that models no longer matter. It is that users, especially developers, have become much more practical. Fine, you shipped an upgrade. But the real question now is: so what? ...