A great assistant, not an agent.
Text, images, any types of content, layouts or designs, all the creative work that goes into making a website: no way am I giving that up to a machine. It's your project, my work.
AI can be truly helpful in upscaling low-res images, helping me better understand code, finding inspiration, sketching rough ideas or automating repetitive, tedious workflows. I love to have it as an assistant. But that's it.
Humans crafting for humans
I keep hearing it over and over: "Better start using AI, it's here to stay, don't miss that train" and it's usually followed by: "Watch out, it's gonna replace you in a couple years time!" Well here's the deal:
I don't give a fuck.
The future isn't written and I love what I do. And that's to create hand-crafted websites for you that provide genuine, tangible benefits to your business.
So when you work with me, you get real web design, real photography, real copywriting, real SEO and real partnership. Plus all the services that my hand-picked, carefully vetted partners in my professional network offer, like advanced coding or marketing, graphic design, complex builds and more.
"We must continue to have humans make things that inspire and provoke other humans!"
...said Jon Stewart, recently. (followed by, "ChatGPT wrote that", but hey ;-)).
It's not like AI destroys our future or anything
Oh, hey, you know what else AI does? It messes with the environment and accelerates our breathless race towards global ecological breakdown. But eh, who cares, right? As long as we can click a button and boom, website's done. As long as we can strip the heart and soul from every human endeavour and produce endless regurgitated slop, right?! Obey! Consume product!
Sigh. All right, off my soapbox I step. Listen, don't get me wrong, AI's got a lot of upsides and it can help with climate change, too. But let's not lose sight of our genuine humanity.
I'm real and here for you.
I'm gonna keep doing my job, getting better at it every day and you best believe I'll keep investing in my relationships with you guys.
If that means I'll lose my job, who cares? I'll land on my feet. It's a big world and there's lots to do in it.
Meanwhile, let's keep creating greatness together, as friends and partners!
Anyway, that's all I've got for today. 😉
