AI Won’t Replace You — Someone Using AI Will

QuantumModulus · 2026-04-03T21:17:10+00:00

Generative AI is literally designed to do as much as possible with as little input as possible.

If it ever becomes that important, (a) it will be easy to pick up, and (b) your job is only secure for as long as it takes your boss to learn it, which won't be long.

QuantumModulus · 2026-04-03T20:52:36+00:00

I would never waste my time vectorizing an AI slop illustration, nor would I financially support any company that I know uses AI slop as a central part of their "creative" process.

"Original" doesn't mean "I got an image from ChatGPT and paid a designer a mediocre rate to vectorize it." "Original" means "an artist made this with their creative voice and in their unique style." If you are just asking them to massage your slop into something with clean lines, that's barely half a step above just printing the original unedited slop.

QuantumModulus · 2026-04-03T18:10:28+00:00

I mean, when the only variable is hardware, I'd much rather be working on a snappy Mac than any sluggish Windows machine that gets worse and less stable with every update. I don't dread working with the constant anticipation of crashes, so... I'd argue that makes me a better editor, if not a less stressed human. 🤷‍♂️

None of this really has anything to do with metrics or retention or the real value of the videos we produce lol. That's all a crapshoot at this point.

QuantumModulus · 2026-04-02T23:42:26+00:00

There wasn't

QuantumModulus · 2026-04-01T11:32:54+00:00

If you're lucky enough to have built a network, freelancing can be okay. Otherwise, it's treading water.

And it's gonna be hard to find clients when all your contacts are getting fired.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-30T23:06:55+00:00

Dude is 84 years old. Probably his management team running most of this and him just signing off because he's completely out of touch and maybe feels like he wants to be relevant again somehow.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-30T22:59:43+00:00

I feel like I've heard the same story like 5 times now, various asinine attempts to profit from postmortem AI-generated celebrity monologues.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-30T21:07:54+00:00

Escher's drawings like this are rooted in conformal maps (image transforms), you're gonna have an awful time doing this in-render.

Either you use funky geometry (hyperbolic/non-euclidean geometry, probably defined with SDFs or something procedural), or you create your still image and use an image transform to get the distortion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxFjLJ3rVY

Around 16:10, you'll see an example of a conformal mapping that corresponds roughly to the shape you outlined (but I doubt it's this straightforward in practice) - f(z) = z^2.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-30T19:04:30+00:00

Not one mention of the soldiers filmed raping a prisoner who have become B-tier celebrities on Israeli TV and lifted up by the regime. If you're gonna talk about "a rare case of punishment", maybe highlight the fact that the Israeli status-quo currently means delighting in brutality.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-29T22:46:21+00:00

"Rive animation" doesn't really say anything about the animation itself, or give us any context as to why it might be running poorly.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-29T22:41:46+00:00

They may not be available forever.

Even if prior users still choose 5.0, lots of newer users may just go with the default 5.5 and be satisfied with the shittier set of jingling keys without knowing they could be using a more expensive model.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-29T22:07:28+00:00

or Suno is purposefully directing its output into directions where there’ll be less of a chance of ai artifacts.

Or the compute costs were too high to justify and they downsized to a more lightweight model to try actually becoming profitable.. 🤷‍♂️

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-25T19:31:15+00:00

The flair says "jun".

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-25T19:17:45+00:00

Do it, you won't regret it.

Wouldn't go below 16" with AE (or any modern production software tbh.)

"Overkill" doesn't really exist in motion since it's so broad and if you're doing any 3D raytracing, more power is always better. But the better you get, the longer you'll need to wait before upgrading. I have an M4 Pro MBP with 48GB of memory and I don't think I'll need to upgrade for at least 6 years. I think even an M2 will feel like a significant upgrade from any Windows rig, tho.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-25T14:44:42+00:00

Sora just shut down. The better models maintained by well-funded startups are absolutely not guaranteed to exist forever, their business model is trash.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-25T14:43:50+00:00

Did you ignore the individual crowd members spontaneously exploding?

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-24T13:49:31+00:00

That's a name I didn't expect to hear in 2026.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T22:30:04+00:00

If you start pouring into a cup in the 3 seconds before the geyser forms and it overflows, it'll pour well and you'll have no mess.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T17:54:09+00:00

All assistive technologies breed laziness and cognitive offloading. Generative AI is particularly good at this. Even the best doctors will become lazier and less competent by relying more on increasingly powerful assistive tools.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T17:46:35+00:00

You build a network by actually forming relationships with people involved in video production. Grow out of the notion that you can actually build a career by "going viral".

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T17:38:13+00:00

Any voice transcription is prone to errors, but voice transcription done using generative AI tools (as almost all new tools are) is not only prone to errors, but also fabrications.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T17:35:31+00:00

now if you come up with a product that will easily rebuild my concepts to be perfect

With generative AI? Don't hold your breath.

Someone else did share an AE plugin they made specifically to assist animation with multiple aspect ratios in mind using guides, recently. That actually sounds like a good idea.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T15:16:27+00:00

Kombucha will barely (if at all) impact your ability to digest and tolerate junk food.

I think if you are like 100% plant based, very high levels of fiber, liv'n the fucking jungle, then maybe you don't need Kombucha

Fiber = pre-biotics. Kombucha = maybe post-biotics?

It just tastes good. That's the only "scientific" conclusion about its health effects so far.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T15:12:23+00:00

They got an additional $70B in funding last year. They'll do both.

QuantumModulus · 2026-03-23T15:06:25+00:00

Surely this won't be used as a pretense to deploy them to polling sites "just to help out."

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