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  mass-driver
  Hey, I’m the author of this article. Just thought I’d share some context, since HN is a little outside the intended audience:- We’re a tiny design studio specialising in fonts, so our website was (maybe predictably) not set up to handle a big traffic spike. It should be stable now.- This article was written in response to some font industry discussions on the same topic. It’s a collection of thoughts rather than a manifesto, and there’s nuance which it doesn’t go into. I’m not a die-hard AI hater, just opposed to careless use of it within this narrow field.Appreciate the more reasonable comments!
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  tony_cannistra
  I'm the op on this one (not the author). Gotta say, I had higher hopes for the community here.Isn't it worthwhile to examine our patterns of thinking and work? Shouldn't alternative perspectives such as these spark conversation, rather than sly jibes?HN grew from curiosity and good-faith. Y'all are not showing up.
• glouwbug
  When you write without AI you cultivate your team’s understanding which cultivates communication and teamwork and immediate understanding during downtime and emergencies. Build your team, not the product
• anon
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• Isaackoz
  I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a human-only created typeface and an AI assisted typeface.
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  wizzwizz4
  <a>Info<span class="hide_on_mobile">rmation</span></a> Clever. Not sure what the <a> is for, though.
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  notenlish
  The site was back up but now it's down again for some reason.
• anon
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• simonreiff
  FYI just 502'd
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  joshcsimmons
  Is this a flex now?As always, I don't really care what tools a creative uses to manifest their idea in the world, I care how good the product is.AI, just like the coding language you choose is a TOOL. Tools can be wielded expertly or crudely. At the end of the day your customer doesn't care who you are they care about your product.
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  TacticalCoder
  Where are the voices of reason?My wife got an email from a new hire (now even a new hire yet: she's still on a trial basis), a 23 years old, where she explains that she doesn't want to use AI. That she doesn't like what AI does. On a funny sidenote: the email is obviously 99% llmish, which is hilarious.That's one extremity: crazy people who refuse to learn a new tool.Then on the other extremity you have the even much crazier ones: those who believe they've got an intelligent machine that is going to solve all their work problems during the day and then, at night, that is going to enlighten them by revealing them who god really is.Where the heck are the reasonable people who use AI for what it is: a tool that can be extremely helpful at times and extremely sucky at other times but that is still, on average, a time saver?
• metalman
  No AI needed for the design and build of custom metal either, and with a similar long human effort that I am privilaged to be aware and part of that I am quite certain cant be handled useing any computational averaging. Funnily enough, I have had and am right now involved in a project that the customer tried to have AI design, but that the most basic calculations were wrong. It's worse, as even humans working with highly developed design and estimating software, cant deliver accurate shop plans for real world projects that involve irregular surfaces or curves, and changing slopes that must be measured on site. AI will help you enjoy your cubes and parallograms, and cover them with realistic textures.
• mschuster91
  to the people claiming "hugged to death", this website works for me while on a train in rural Germany (anyone who lives in Europe should be all too aware about phone network quality here).As for the content: fully agree. Human touch is a value in itself. Unfortunately, modern capitalism does not provide incentives to take care about value, because (by capitalism's metrics) value is inefficiency.
• x0i
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  protocolture
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  blinkbat
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  subygan
  hugged to death at 8 points and 20 minutes in frontpage.Please use AI (or anything) to fix your site.
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  therobots927
  Noticing a lot of different variations of “LOL hugged to death. Maybe ask AI to fix your site.” here.Such juvenile behavior can only be attributed to the general unease and defensiveness demonstrated by members of the AI cult in the face of criticism:“Your blasphemy against our god has been duly punished… you must pray for his forgiveness.”
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  rvz
  All these "principled" people telling others that they "practice what they preach" then keep shooting themselves in the foot with their "production" site down and hugged to death on the front page.Just ask the AI to set up your site for better uptime if you don't know how to.
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  hexasquid
  Artists: No cold-hearted machine can ever replicate the ingenuity, the innate creativity and passionate soul of the artiste.Later: The villain cat has the catchphrases 'Purrrfect' and 'You must be kitten me'. The snake character makes lotsss of sss noissesss.
• arjie
  Grandiose enough for internal documentation and self-motivation but otherwise uninteresting. It's Yet Another Meaning And History Post of the variety you've seen posted a few dozen times. Has the flavour of someone still discussing tabs and spaces. In an odd irony, it's mostly like the content it disparages.
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  combray
  What sort of human hands make computer fonts? Are you there coding in the ones and zeros on some sort of breadboard, wiring up the data using an oscilloscope and rare earth magnets?There seems to be this idea that using AI is the same thing as walking away and not touching it. Like that you would just say to the computer, do the thing and then not look at it, read it or edit it in any way. What's the world where you're describing where you wouldn't select and edit and refine? You know, with software as an example, how that works with AI is that you spend all day opting it and refining it and you do it over and over and over and you're guiding it and you're shaping it. So it's not like the computer does it. You're still there. I mean, you're making a typeface. You're not chiseling something into stone. You're making a program of sorts that will make shapes. And I don't know why there would be any world where you would just walk away from your first prompt and call it done.