I called AI image generation a toy until I saw it design a logo for a friend's cafe in Portland

He fed it a few rough sketches and got a final logo concept in under an hour, something that would have taken days and a lot of money. Has anyone else had a project that completely flipped their view on a tool they wrote off?

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ben1381mo ago

Man, that's wild. I was totally in the same boat, thought it was just for making weird pictures. Then I saw a guy use it to come up with a whole menu layout for his food truck, descriptions and everything, in like twenty minutes. It completely changed my mind. It's not just a toy anymore, it's a real tool if you know how to point it in the right direction.

reese_chen1mo ago

But a food truck menu isn't exactly brain surgery, is it?

dakota78717d ago

The thing is, @ben138 hit on something bigger here. We all have this habit of writing stuff off the first time we see it because it's new or different. Like when everyone said GPS was just for rich people with fancy cars, now nobody can drive without it. Same with streaming music, people thought it was a gimmick until it just became the normal way to listen. This AI stuff is following that same path. You see it as a toy until you actually let it do real work for you, then it's just another tool on the belt. The pattern is pretty clear, we're slow to admit something's useful until it saves us time or money.