One of the things I hate about AI is how it's rewarding the Idea Guy. You know, the Idea Guy. The guy that comes to you and is like "hey, I have an idea, what if we did X" and then you're like "Okay, bud, who is going to actually take X from idea to a finished product?" And the Idea Guy is like "I dunno, some pleb. I had the Idea. Isn't that most of the work?"
Actually no. It is not most of the work. But now, hey, we have the slop machine. Idea Guys rejoice.
I've always said that there are no bad ideas, only bad execution. The most trite, overused plot with great execution? Amazing. The most amazing premise with horrid execution? Awful, with a dash of added disappointment because it squandered a great premise. The corollary to all this is that ideas are, most of the time, fucking worthless. Only execution of the idea matters. How you take your little brainfart from a random thought to an actual story with a beginning, middle and end, that also hits the emotional beats you want it to, is entirely in the execution. How do you learn to execute? NOT THROUGH THE USE OF AI.
(Yes, this rare public kay-c rant was brought to you by the whole drama of the AO3 skin that detects Claude usage.)