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1. dzink · 1789752442 · focus · HN ↗

   You are a photographer from the olden age. Taking a photo back then took forever. You are standing on a hill trying to get the perfect picture of a sunset. You measure and sort and calculate angles and light. A tourist stands next to you with an high-speed iphone auto-settings camera. They spin around and get thousands of photos from different angles while you are thinking and measuring your one shot. That’s what AI does. It gives you many shots at the same problem. The thinking guy with the one approach will likely lose a photo competition to one of the accidentally better shots of the person who tried a lot more. Make and filter now may be a better approach than overthink and try only once.

   1. fragmede · 1789755141 · focus · HN ↗

      That's an interesting analogy, because there's still a spectrum. Photography's big advancement was the move to digital. Prior to that, you had to know what an F stop is, different developer chemicals, manual focus. These days, yes, an iPhone is actually quite good at taking pictures. Apple invested billions for that to happen, it wasn't an accident. SLR cameras are still there though, you still have wedding photographers. You don't have the mall photographer for once a year photoshoots so much anymore, however. Everyone just takes pictures everywhere as they need. Software is the same now. I need a program to do a thing, I'll just have AI whip one up instead of looking for software that does something that but has 100 more features I don't need. Gone are the days where customers would come to the mall to get photos done and buy software. (Though that world's been gone for a while.) Software is now only a means to an end, so better find the customers that have needs and embed with them instead of having them look for Photoshop.

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