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delis-thumbs-7e ◴[] No.46203283[source]
> A very good example of the first category is image (and video) generation. Drawing/rendering a realistic looking image is a crazily hard task. Have you tried to make a slide look nicer? It will take me literally hours to center the text boxes to make it look “good”. However, you really just need to take a look at the output of Nano Banana and you can tell if it’s a good render or a bad one based on how you feel.

The writer could be very accomplished when it comes to developing - I don’t know - but they clearly don’t understand a single thing about visual arts or culture. I probably could center those text boxes after fiddling with them maybe ten seconds - I have studied art since I was a kid. My bf could do it instantly without thinking a second, he is a graphic designer. You might think that you are able to see what « looks good » since, hey you have eyes, but no you can’t. There’s million details you will miss, or maybe feel something is off, but cannot quite say why. This is why you have graphic designers, who are trained to do that to do it. They can also use generative tools to make something genuinely stunning, unlike most of us. Why? Skills.

This is the same difference why the guy in the story who can’t code can’t code even with LLM, whereas the guy who cans is able to code even faster with these new tools. If use LLM’s for basically auto-completion (what transformer models really are for) you can work with familiar codebase very quickly I’m sure. I’ve used it to gen SQL call statements, which I can’t be bothered to type myself and it was perfect. If I try to generate something I don’t really understand or know how to do, I’m lost staring at sole horrible gobbledygoo that is never going to work. Why? Skills.

There is no verification engineering. There is just people who know how to do things, who have studied their whole life to get those skills. And no, you will not replace a real hardcore professional with an LLM. LLM’s are just tools, nothing else. A tractor replaced a horse in turning the field, bit you still need a farmer to drive it.

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1. jstanley ◴[] No.46203457[source]
Centering text boxes in competent design software is easy because it has a tool to align things to the centre of other things.

For example, Inkscape has this and it is easy to use.

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2. delis-thumbs-7e ◴[] No.46203565[source]
I meant just by eye, mate. But it is pretty bad example anyway, obvs it is something that any program can do better than us. Better would be layout or maybe typography. Even professionals mess it up all the time.

Point is, even basic visual design is far from intuitive.

3. wongarsu ◴[] No.46203800[source]
Though it's notable that sometimes this will produce "wrong" results because it centers on the geometric middle point of the box, while the correct thing is often more like bringing the center of gravity into the middle

I'm more of a fan of aligning to an edge anyways. But some designers love to get really deep into these kinds of things, often in ways they can't really articulate