'Frenetic AI workflows make me feel productive and powerful — but they inhibit creativity'
generativist · x · 2026-10-30
generativist argues that {schizophrenic, frenetic} AI workflows make him feel both productive and powerful, yet he's fairly sure they insidiously inhibit creativity.
In the follow-up thread he adds that each output looks creative in isolation but is path-of-least-resistance copies of copies next to everyone else's, and that zero-friction 'costless' side-quests block the connection-building that comes from doing something 100 times.
Related event: Developer Warns That Frantic AI Workflows May Quietly Kill Creativity(4 posts)→
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