Dream job

My dream job today, would be very different than it would have been earlier in my career.

AI

I've taken an interest in "Prompt engineering". I'd like to create UIs that guide non experts to better questions - within a certain context. More UI. Less engineering/LLM.

"Computers are stupid, they only give you answers".

Midjourney

Midjourney (and maybe other image generators) is truly exciting - maybe even revolutionary. Until Midjourney, I'd written off AI as 'neat'. It is a distillation of what AI can do that my mind finally is beginning to understand.

As a lover or art, especially abstract art, I've always thought a computer could create art. I've actually tried it, in a primitive way. Pragmatically, I created random triangles and circles and thru them on the screen. It almost never created anything coherent.

What makes Midjourney so special is its 'eye'. Astoundingly, it seems to understand what makes a great piece of art - which of course would be ineffable - but distinguishable. Center of attention, golden ratio, vanishing point - guiding the eye around the piece. I don't know how but it is doing it. It is fun and exciting.

As an artist, we better look at that wave cresting on the horizon and get a surfboard. It will be at least as disruptive as the technologies that, say, allow running Figma, or Photoshop, in the browser. It is a tool, not a crutch.

Discord as an interface is alright - but it seems like there is plenty of room to make it better.

Blender

When Sketchup went off the deep end, I learned Blender, a fantastic software with a steep learning curve - and worth every hour spent learning! The whole ethos of Blender, starting at the top with Ton, fascinates and excites me. It is how a software company should be IMO.

My dream job, I think, would be ...

• developing prompting tools for AI generators.
• working on a Blender pipeline, that leverages AI, and would benefit from my practical scripting/development skills