on perfection

I have always been a perfectionist. I have, as most others, always struggled to accept anything less than perfection in my creations.

For me like many other software developers AI has become a part of their day-to-day job. Pretty unavoidably as they’ve become too good, or at least good enough to not use. Of course not for everything, but as a tool for many things.

As I notice AI getting better and better, I notice my own perfectionism being cured in a way. I simply have an easier time to accept flaws.

The reason is simple. Flaws are human. You give an AI a text, and back you get a much more well-written text, stripped of its imperfections, of its warts. Stripped of what made it human.

I like humans, therefore I like imperfections.

It is however no excuse to do a crappy job and put no effort into the product.

// JR