AI and Creativity

6/15/2026

A response to this youtube video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eFNbxqFjd8 The comment section in this video is especially reminiscent of the industrial revolution. The resistance to see nuance in novelty is quite surprising to me. "I think you've got a lot of truth here, but on the whole I disagree. There are some tasks that AI is brilliant for, and where using it does not diminish creativity or the final product. I strongly believe structured vibe coding is one of the best examples of this. Sure, there are some elements of creativity in learning to code and developing the exact structure/shape of the product yourself, but I think there are many cases where the end-result is the key place for creativity. Vibe coding allows for a much, much lower barrier to entry, meaning people who are very creative and have very creative ideas are able to produce them without having to learn to code. In practice this already happens often, someone comes up with a good idea, and hires a developer to create it. Using AI instead of that developer is going to be a rough transition and we have to be careful about how we move through it, but I strongly believe there is great potential for increased creativity BECAUSE of AI, if only we choose to use it correctly. At the end of the day, I think most of this will work itself out. Tasks that can be performed by AI without losing their core will be performed by AI, mostly because people won't be able to tell that AI was used in their creation, and partially because people who use AI will be far more productive in those tasks than people who try to forgo it (i.e. coding). Tasks/products where AI clearly removes an important element of said task/product will see very little AI use as people recognize AI's inability. btw I didn't use ai to write this because I 95% agree that writing is one of those tasks where AI is not a good replacement for human capacity."