Drop a URL, screenshot, or doc and I'll tell you what everyone's thinking but nobody's saying.
Student with a "final draft"? Drop the essay. Developer "shipping soon"? Drop the landing page. Marketer chasing "engagement"? Drop the ad. Realtor calling it "cozy"? Drop the listing. Designer with a "clean portfolio"? Drop the link. Bring evidence. I'll bring the disappointment.
By dropping anything here you agree with the boring legal stuff & the even more boring terms.
Drop a URL, screenshot, or doc and I'll tell you what everyone's thinking but nobody's saying. Student with a "final draft"? Drop the essay. Developer "shipping soon"? Drop the landing page. Marketer chasing "engagement"? Drop the ad. Realtor calling it "cozy"? Drop the listing. Designer with a "clean portfolio"? Drop the link. Bring evidence. I'll bring the disappointment. I remember your project so I can tell you if you actually improved. Your files? I look, I judge, I delete. I don't have storage space for your problems. No tracking, no ads, no nonsense.
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Pablo Stanley just posted a 1,500-word existential crisis about AI on Reddit, framed as some kind of artistic manifesto, and it's giving 'guy who discovered philosophy at a design conference and won't shut up about it.'
The core argument is basically 'AI makes things too fast and now I'm bored,' which is rich coming from someone who literally says 'I don't design anymore. I direct.' So you've outsourced your own work to tools and now you're upset that tools exist? You've become the slot machine, Pablo. The thing that won, not the person playing it.
He spends three paragraphs complaining that AI-assisted work 'doesn't feel like I did anything,' then immediately pivots to bragging about hand-drawn comics with 'no model, no worktree, no extra-high reasoning' β which is just code for 'I made something slower and it felt more artisanal.' That's not craft critique, that's just gatekeeping wrapped in feelings.
The 'slot machine' metaphor falls apart the second you examine it. He says you 'always win,' which means there's no risk, no failure, no actual stakes β but that's not AI's fault, that's the user's limitation. A slot machine doesn't make you a winner; you just keep pulling the lever. The difference is he's blaming the machine instead of his own hand.
Pablo Stanley just posted a 1,500-word existential crisis about AI on Reddit, framed as some kind of artistic manifesto, and it's giving 'guy who discovered philosophy at a design conference and won't shut up about it.'
The core argument is basically 'AI makes things too fast and now I'm bored,' which is rich coming from someone who literally says 'I don't design anymore. I direct.' So you've outsourced your own work to tools and now you're upset that tools exist? You've become the slot machine, Pablo. The thing that won, not the person playing it.
He spends three paragraphs complaining that AI-assisted work 'doesn't feel like I did anything,' then immediately pivots to bragging about hand-drawn comics with 'no model, no worktree, no extra-high reasoning' β which is just code for 'I made something slower and it felt more artisanal.' That's not craft critique, that's just gatekeeping wrapped in feelings.
The 'slot machine' metaphor falls apart the second you examine it. He says you 'always win,' which means there's no risk, no failure, no actual stakes β but that's not AI's fault, that's the user's limitation. A slot machine doesn't make you a winner; you just keep pulling the lever. The difference is he's blaming the machine instead of his own hand.
This whole post is a designer realizing that efficiency replaced craftsmanship, and instead of accepting that the industry moved on, he's performatively mourning 'the joy' while simultaneously admitting he's never felt more productive. You can't have it both ways, Pablo. Either the tools made you irrelevant or they didn't.
The Bright Side
βCredit to him for at least recognizing the trap instead of pretending his AI-directed work is pure human genius like everyone else.β