Today's Ultra-Fast AI Productivity Vs Millunimum's Old Slow Productivity

The following was posting in a writing Discord community that I recently joined. The owner of the community made a video which looks into how AI can write poetry. One thing that gets lost in these discussions is the incredible value of working at a gradual pace and how complex work develops over seasons. The post: I've had a couple weeks to think about what AI means in the creative field. It seems like everyone is going to have to come up with an explanation for why they use it or not. One of the advantages for using it I was told again and again is that it can make something fast. For quite some time I've been aware of why many will actually do a project intentionally slow. When I entered design school they didn't allow us to work on computers, at least not for a long time. The old process of working by hand would slow us down to think through why those decisions were being made.

In the famous graphic designer Paula Scher's book Make it Bigger she said that she will intentionally search out the hardest way to do a project. This meandering down the long hard path is a great way to collect so much inspiration that would you would blow right past if you were focused on the quickest way from point A to B.

Last year's Slow Productivity talks about spreading work out over seasons. Doing a very limited amount of work over long stretches of time is what generally leads to the most meaningful work in my own experience.

Perhaps the reason AI messes with the way I think is that I've always been taught to try and think of ideas that others in our class have not thought of, to go past the predictable. The way AI works is that it searches out what is already out there. This always seem the opposite of the way I was trained!