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I feel like people often assume that if AI is being used for something, the approach must be lazy, unethical, or lacking technical understanding. For code especially, that argument feels flawed to me. Learning to code isn’t for everyone. Removing the friction of learning programming languages to build visual tools is a great thing for artists and creators. We don’t expect everyone to learn a new language every time they travel just to communicate. Translators help bridge that gap. And while learning another human language has value beyond simply getting something done, programming languages serve a different purpose: they let us give computers instructions. Now that we can communicate those instructions more naturally through LLMs, knowing how to write every line yourself becomes less of a requirement for building something useful. Technical knowledge still has value, but more people can participate without first becoming programmers. That’s especially meaningful for creative tool building. We’ve all searched for a tool in the middle of a project that either didn’t exist or didn’t have the controls we wanted. You know exactly what you need creatively, but implementing it has always been the barrier. That barrier is getting smaller. You can build tools around the way you work, add the controls you need, and create pipelines that connect multiple languages and platforms. Knowing what you want, directing how it should behave, and judging whether the result works are meaningful creative skills too. To me, that’s creative empowerment. More people can turn “I wish this tool existed” into something they can actually use.