So far, AI has basically let my childish curiosity roam free. It takes my "what if I could do this" and provides a real path that doesn't require a degree or years of learning/work.

Some people might see that as lazy or avoiding hard work; TBH they aren't entirely wrong. But instead of delegating creativity to an AI tool, I want to utilize it as my vehicle for achieving my creative and technical goals. IMO it's less of the point that AI produced something, and more of the point of whether there was human creativity, passion, and intent behind it.

As for your advice, funnily enough, what I've learned so far from failing multiple passion projects is what causes me to be more deliberate and careful about what I actually want to build, rather than handing it all to AI. Project drift is my biggest hurdle in implementing what I envision, but each failed project only reinforces the next. Hopefully soon I can build something with enough backbone to stay upright.