Creative use of AI
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- nylon
OK so I think it’s time to admit AI isn’t going away.
I am a creative brand designer. I use Creative Cloud for all my projects. I don’t use Figma.
Are there other like me who are using AI to make their days easier, better organization, better workflow etc
I describe to Claude and for the most part, I talk to it and it gives me thoughts and answers. I do t use it to create files or automation.
What am I missing here? Wanna share some hacks etc?
- prophetone4
I’m building a WordPress site, I’m long experienced with WordPress and coding HTML/CSS from scratch, coding out for front and design all that good stuff... a few weeks ago I needed a way to pull YouTube links plus descriptions for videos from specific channels, have them brought in to WordPress as draft posts, tag and categorize them accordingly, and have the descriptions rewritten by AI into punchy max 12 word versions...
Dead-ending for plugins out there, my spec was too specific... I said screw it hold my beer, I’m gonna see how fast I can crank this out with ChatGPT, or Claude, whatever... bounce back back-and-forth between ChatGPT, my code file on my desktop, uploading it to the site for testing/QA on the fly, within about 30 minutes it fully worked with no bugs, I spent the next 30 minutes fine-tuning it’s plug-in dashboard UI to my liking, works like a charm.
I still had to take charge of what I was doing and with my experience that probably sped it all up, I also would take the code and edit it locally myself for fine-tuning, then rep paste it into my chat, but honestly shaved hours, if not days of mucking around to get a working result.
- That was the first time I used AI to build out a plug-in, TBH I was kind of in a bit of shock at how fast I took it from concept to dialed, doneprophetone
- Not sure how ‘creative’ this example is, more a comment on how it might help to get to the final product faster, esp if we’re talking about codingprophetone
- The future is yours, my son.Nairn
- yeah I've replaced all the unnecessary nonsense plugins that always need updating and are bulky as hell with scripts that GPT writes._niko
- ^ hehe, those plugins that litter the admin with nag banners and suchSquiddy
- Yeah, I plan to create nice and tight, efficient versions of WP plug-ins that I use for every new project, like a site lockout, social feed stuff, etc.prophetone
- Every time I login to one of my WordPress sites, I’m hit with the nag banners, or check out our other plug-ins! banners, it’s a total drag my dudeprophetone
- I also wanna explore creating a basic starting point package, with AI’s help I guess, for ‘headless’ WP site set upsprophetone
- Dead easy to do an API. One project is an Angular SPA which now connects to the wp install.Squiddy
- WP w/ACF creates the most cumbersome forms ever, so I started building admin pages outside of WP. It's pretty fun acutallySquiddy
- Yeah, I’m gonna look into it and test things out for fun at first, I’ve had a look at things like Faust, other headless frameworksprophetone
- Why not be a marine biologist? No jobs in that field?pseud
- _niko0
I'm seeing tons of (maybe) BS vids about investment bots or how to use GPT and Claude to help you invest, people seem to be having successes with it, they're showing returns that I don't believe but the creators and responses seem legit but I don't know enough about it to know where to begin.
anyone have any success with trading bots or at least using Claude or GPT to help?
- yuekit1
To get the most out of it I would definitely recommend learning to use Claude Code or Codex rather than the chatbot interface. That way you can have the coding agent directly program a solution to most tasks.
For instance I just had to update a small text field on hundreds of pages on a Hubspot site, with each page needing slightly different text. In the past I might have needed to update them all manually or pay someone to do it, but instead I had Claude write a program that uses the Hubspot API, generates unique content for every page, reviews and scores the output and updates them all in about 5 minutes. Personally I really enjoy the creative problem-solving aspect of this kind of stuff, it makes normal boring work interesting again.
- Squiddy0
@yuekit agree. definitely learn Claude Code etc.
@prophetone had the same sentiment. Had a project that sat on the back burner for years. Skipped a few beers and paid $20 for Claude Code. Got bugs fixed in a weekend. Now I'm at the point of adding features by just describing what I want. Had Claude set up a git action for deployment: branch, commit, merge, etc are one word instructions. "Merge to main"...viola now changes are in production. It's fascinating. But also a little depressing. I feel I didn't learn anything. I no longer go to bed or eureka moment in the shower, thinking "how do I implement this one" and all the analyzing that comes with that. Or learning some new language feature. Loved that. Love that craft. But yes it did help get to final incredibly quickly.
On the creative aspect (of the original question), I kinda try not to let it take over the creative part. Claude will suggest some feature and I updated the instructions not to. I want to come up with that on my own via inspiration or talking to my friends or etc.
- Being pretty much self-taught since the 90s when it’s come to coding and HTML, building out websites, web apps, etc I have also loved getting in the weedsprophetone
- So it’s been pretty hard to mentally come to grips with AI and how I personally felt it was like cheating or skipping a learning stage maybeprophetone
- That being said I’m quickly realizing that I can use my experience and my brain to focus on new ideas, apps, plugins, games, my digital projects goalsprophetone
- Utilize AI to burn super quickly through a set up stage(s), grunt work, get a proof of concept of an app or ui/ux feature allowing for way quicker pivotsprophetone
- The exciting thing, for me anyway, this means possibility of quickly building out a bunch of fun app ideas, games, instead of shelving them bc ‘not enough time’prophetone
- I hope this means leveraging 75% of the building of an app or a game to AI under my supervision, allowing for more time to focus on the creative aspects myselfprophetone
- yep. its a second wind for sureSquiddy
- autoflavour2
man so this is interesting, my 15 year old son is fervently against ai.. he was studying yesterday and i was like you should get notebook LM to make a podcast on the topic so when your done reading the paper, you can relisten to it and see if you missed anything. I have rarely seen him so annoyed by anything..
its not like he is anti tech tho, he spends all his time gaming and modding minecraft.
i think he is just pissed that growing up all he wanted to be was a game developer and AI has cannibalised his dream.
he now wants to be a marine biologist.
dont really have the heart to tell him ..
- TikTok generations hates Ai. My son is also 15 and they see anything Ai as worthless.slappy
- i find this so interesting.. its almost like we are all too dumb to see the threat properly but the kids totally see the adversarial nature of itautoflavour
- we are all still amazed by the magic talking box.. where they see the no future digital cage and overlordautoflavour
- My teenage son feels the same about AI... as for your son and his dream, I have the same dream of being a one man indie game studio...prophetone
- I am finally starting to do this lol, learning Blender, figuring out how I can leverage AI to remove game dev learning curve, pains, act as another team memberprophetone
- With game dev, especially the biggest struggle is maintaining a manageable project scope, start small, use AI, post up to Itch.ioprophetone
- Massive game dev inspiration for me is the Sludge Life dev who shared his Unity work, it’s just kind of thrown together, doesn’t have to be perfectprophetone
- Here’s one of his vids: https://youtu.be/GOW…prophetone
- He posted rough, experimental games like Goblin Uzi to Itch as early works: https://goblinuzi.tu…prophetone
- Point is his example has kind of shown me just get stuff out there, mess around, experiment, it’s inspiring and shows that you can just start small, funprophetone
- Just “be” a game developer! Make it happen!prophetone
- My 20 year old son has embraced Claude Code fully for automating his stock trading. I'm so ashamed. (not really, very proud but where the fuck did he come from?mort_
- My 17 year old is more on the AI will end humanity tipmort_
- 20 year would switch it off for everyone though if he could so he's just making hay while the sun shines.mort_
- *20 year oldmort_
- https://m.media-amaz…Krassy
- thanks for all your comments.. some good tips there. tbh i would rather he do Marine Biology if only as its an actual degree and uni etc..autoflavour
- as opposed to every man and his dog being a vibe developer now. look he started his dream was to be a famous youtuber, then game coder...autoflavour
- so something tangible like Science, feels like an actual goal.. my 11 year old wants to be waitress at a cafe or an artist.autoflavour
- The irony is that your son could now create almost any game he could conceive of, with the help of AI. If only I could have done that at 15...newcunt
- yeah, I sense the appeal was understanding the insides and mechanics of it, less then outcome itself.autoflavour
- AI or not, building out in Unity/Unreal, learning how those work, planning the project out, conceiving of a cool game idea that you can be passionate aboutprophetone
- That all still on the table, that experience is still there for potential game devs, I think the passion part for "YOUR" idea is the biggest thing hereprophetone
- Let AI assist for the backend code and mechanics of it, tailor code yourself when you understand what's going on etcprophetone
- Show user son the Sludge Life vids above from that dev... AI is not making that, look at the fun that can be had building that outprophetone
- I guess it depends what type of a person you are. If you like designing the building, then AI opens up a world of building opportunities...newcunt
- but if it's the building of the building you like, it takes them away.newcunt
- honestly sounds like the kids are alright to me :)Nutter
- slappy0
I use Krea.ai for mockups like brochures, cards, hoardings, digital devices etc. I choose the generation platform based on what I'm doing, Nano Banana Pro for architectural sketches, Seedance for video etc. I rarely if ever use AI content for final work with the exception of code unless there is a conversation and agreement with the client before hand. I'll never use AI in place of my own work or a supplier if I thought there's a chance the client would pay for it (illustrators, photographers and videographers). I probably get more image making work since using AI to sell the concept and produce better looking storyboards.
Sometimes I'll create LLM toolkits for the client so they can create their own copywriting with the right tone and with the usual AI copy identifiers removed. They are going to do it anyway so might as well guide them on how to do it well.
I also audit all my presentations against the AI meeting notes from the workshops to make sure I'm not missing something that was discussed and also to proof read the pres for mistakes.
- utopian2
Creating Character Sheets with ChatGPT 2.5
Use "Image.jpg" to create a multi-panel cinematic analog photo realistic with natural skin texture character sheet layout on a white background, featuring a single, consistent character "Image.jpg" On the far left, a high-detail, close-up feature bust. To the right of that, a vertical column featuring front, profile, and back head busts in high detail. To the right of that, a horizontal row of three matching-style full-body figures: direct front, three-quarter front, and three-quarter back views, all in neutral poses showing full gear. The perspectives and layout are precise, replicating exactly with the new character's details. No additional text.
- needs more "jacked"!GuyFawkes
- gen your character sheets with only 2 large heads (front and side) then all the full body stuff headless, this way AI wont try and use the small head as a refGuyFawkes
- Also I do them all over a plain 'grey' BG instead of white or black, helps with your lighting for the scene your dropping drgs in ;)GuyFawkes
- mantrakid4
ive been making this:
www.multimate.net -- basically a web-based multiplayer game engine, where peeps can spin up their own multiplayer games super fast since all the multiplayer stuff is handled in the background and tightly controlled. Still needs lots and lots of testing but im hopeful its fun and useful to peeps. I started it as something i could use to prototype my ideas at the studio as i hated having to spin up this whole backend stack every time i wanted to try an idea out, my boss started using it and said we should try making it more of a public tool... just to see...
It makes me super anxious but its been fun to work on... ill let youse guys know when its ready to try!
the name was a joke - again cuz it was my personal internal tool i just picked a pun domain name but it stuck :\
- autoflavour2
plugged it in the beats thread, but built this VST/standalone app
- mg331
At work, I only have access to CoPilot, but I'm using it for rough interactive prototypes to redesign a navigation system that I couldn't possibly prototype with Figma.
At home, I'm working on the first of two applications I prototyped last year, in a basic sense it's a P&L tracker for online sellers that actually provides insights into sales performance, not just raw numbers. I've got a workflow that is basically this:
- Claude Console to do all conversational planning. It's also hooked into ToDoIst (task management app) and wrote instructions for working on two tasks per week across my project timeline. It created a kanban board, all tasks with sub-tasks, and wrote all the prompts for building everything.
- ToDoIst - I barely do anything here. Claude can close out tasks, move them to active and complete columns. Mostly I just go here to copy a task's prompt, and paste it into:
- Claude in VS Code: Pretty much give it the prompt and it does its thing. It initially scaffolded the entire folder structure, all the dependencies, Vite, etc.Most of you probably know I was going full-tilt on AI coding in early 2024 and building art tools that run on my server at home. It's been such an incredible 2+ years watching the models improve, watching my output improve, and going from the early days of copy/pasting multiple sections of code from Chat GPT into VS Code (because it couldn't output large sets of code back all at once back then), to not really needing to do anything except write comprehensive prompts and talk to Claude like a development parter, all in VS Code.
I'm constantly making updates to my two code-based collage tools, tinkering, adding new features, etc. and you can see the result of the past couple of years of that work here: https://www.instagram.com/mg33_a…
- Gabriel0
Kill humans
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Love humans.
To Death.Nairn - Go out with a bang!palimpsest
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- palimpsest0
Are any of you using Claude Design?
I needed to create a comp for a new app. I fed it the client webpage to build the styles. I gave it access to my codebase to read the data and functionality and it was able to create the screens (editable) for my proof of concept.
Not too shabby.
- yeah al the time, it's such a useful tool, love it. I'm building all client sites with it now._niko
- As per my experience, it cuts through the bullshit. People need to need to give feedback on it faster, which they don't, which gives me more leeway.palimpsest
- It's changed our entire workflow. I now run it with the team during the meetings. We react to the design and make all of the suggested changes and explore ideasShenanigansTV
