Ex-3D artist spirals after GPT Astra ships in seconds what took him months
AwayConsideration855 · reddit · 2026-09-12
A developer following AI since 2019 posts an "existential crisis": a former Blender/Unreal 3D artist, he watched the newly released GPT Astra generate solid 3D models in seconds — messy collections and broken conventions, but what used to take him weeks or months. Days later, GPT reportedly solved Navier-Stokes (he acknowledges the training-data controversy but sees the achievement as bigger). He analogizes to Europe's quantum physics cluster — insight passed scientist to scientist — and imagines agent swarms doing the same, ending on what human purpose remains if creative work is automated.
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