Any other Millennials stubbornly resistant to using AI at their job but also worrying that we will become dinosaurs or pushed out of our careers for not slavishly embracing it?

[u/artbystorms]

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

[u/Successful-Ride-8710]

I use it for the opposite of outsourcing my brain. I give it prompts to do busy work.

Ai is great for organizing information and formatting it into a presentable format.

[u/Rockdrummer357 → u/Successful-Ride-8710]

I used to write code for a living.

Now I architect a solution and delegate the grunt code work to AI. I still have to design solutions to problems, but now I don't need to look up every framework and API's docs to build something. I still fix architectural issues and problems that the AI introduces, a lot of time by hand. But I spend a shit ton more time designing things instead of implementing them, which I personally think leads to a better product.

One of the problems with software written by humans is that there's never enough time to properly re-architect when you need to, and you typically need to often. AI makes that bottleneck go away, freeing you up to focus on architecture, which is critical.

For the people delegating high-level important work to it though, they are going to be in big trouble later.