MY EXPERIENCE WITH A.I.
As a software developer by profession, I have always been shocked that, what seems like the profession that could quickly and easily be the first ones to lose their jobs – and especially bring the elimination of those early, entry-level roles they themselves benefited from – are the most willing to unashamedly use AI across their entire development cycle. From initial ideas and planning, to actually coding, stress testing, revisioning, deployment, and maintenance – it is seems to be almost universally embraced by the software dev community.
Then, on the opposite side of that coin, as a game designer and a performing musician on the side, I belong to two other communities that are vehemently – and sometimes aggressively – opposed to it.
For me, as a whole person, it comes down to keeping human’s employed, privacy, honoring intellectual property and innovation, and the environment. To that end, I do use it for things, and in ways, that I feel avoid those things as much as possible.
FULL DISCLOSURE
I use AI that I host locally in my home, powered by solar power, and with no water cooling for these tasks:
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Looking for typos and grammar issues – but I will also hire and pay a professional editor before any of this ever goes into print.
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Like a thesaurus and dictionary – I regularly ask it to give my synonyms and antonyms, and both formal definitions and common understandings or interpretations of terms.
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I ask it to help make a block of text more concise. We usually argue. I rarely like what it suggest, but sometime during the process I find something I do like better as a combination of all of the versions that resulted in the back-and-forth. Again, something else I will hire a professional editor to help with for any paid or print materials.
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For bulkBulkThe encumbrance measure combining weight, size, balance, and awkwardness. Armor and Kits are common tracked sources of Bulk. changes across my Obsidian markup files – where I do all of my typing and store all of my ideas and images. Such as, when I change a game term from “Alacrity” to “MobilityMobilityYour ability to move and react after accounting for encumbrance. Mobility equals Prowess minus Hindrance.” because I decide that cool, new, unique words aren’t as powerful as familiarity sometimes.
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To automated the deployment process for changes to my web-based SRD between Obsidian, GitHub, and my web server.
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For code creation and collaboration for my websites and to help develop local python script powered web pages to test math and probability for things like combat mechanics. I don’t ask it to make any decisions or recommendations on those things; I create it, then have it create the interface to quickly run tens of thousands of iterations to sanity checkCheckResolution of an uncertain task: compare the relevant Attribute with its Difficulty, then Cast Lots to see whether fate interferes. the results of my creations. And I’ve done all of this by hand in the past – but I’d rather be spending time with my favoritest perfect person, or more time on creating and preparing for the thousands of hours of real-life, in-person playtesting that has already happened, and is still to come.
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In the past, I used it placeholder art before I knew it was so despised by this community. I ask your forgiveness, and promise that every piece of art that makes it into any sellable materials will be 100% made by human hands. But, because I host my AI locally, using renewable energy, I would need to be convinced to stop using it for placeholder art in my personal Word, InDesign, or website iterations. When what I’m workingWorkingA spell-like effect achieved by working the Thae. A starting Working's Difficulty Tier cannot exceed your Willpower Proficiency. on looks good, it is more inspiring to keep workingWorkingA spell-like effect achieved by working the Thae. A starting Working's Difficulty Tier cannot exceed your Willpower Proficiency.. I welcome any new insights you may have for me that could change my mind.
Your humble and very-real person,
Aaron