... judgment, genuinely curious. How many of us asked ChatGPT for app ideas at some point, then ended up building one of them, or half-building it? The line between "my idea" and "the model's idea" got blurry this year. Where did your current project actually come from? Comment from Virko Kask(@virko_kask): Mine came from a friend, not a model. He runs a 12-person shop and got 230 applications for one junior role, most of them ... ... hitting personally before I ever opened a chat window. Where AI actually changes things for me is speed of rejecting bad versions of a good idea. I can sketch a rough direction, have it poke holes or sketch three alternate

... wanted to share it with fellow creators who are struggling with low-quality texture generation. The Problem: Most modern mobile scanners and generators rely on AI. While it looks cool at first glance, it often "hallucinates" details, creating blurry normal maps and physically incorrect geometry. The Solution: I decided to go back to the roots. Nack uses a deterministic Shape from Shading (SfS) algorithm. No AI, no cloud servers, 100% offline. It extracts high-frequency details (pores, fabric weaves, stone ...

... more creative deals Someone without those words keeps making the same offer in different packages 3. How you evaluate trade-offs Rich vocabulary = you can hold multiple competing values simultaneously Limited vocabulary = you collapse complexity into binary thinking Pragmatism vs idealism. Short-term vs