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?
- prophetone5
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
- _niko1
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.
- Squiddy1
@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
- autoflavour1
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
- 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.
