I start to like AI art

I've always had this thing for visuals. I studied art and architecture, spent years learning to see the world through composition, proportion, light. I even wear Figma cap!

That instinct to create never really left, it just ran out of room somewhere between deadlines and everything else life piles on.

Honestly, for a long time I thought AI image tools were just a cute toy. Fun to poke at for five minutes, nothing serious. And I get why people feel that way: you can spot lazy AI slop from a mile away, that uncanny glossiness, the vibe of something generated without any real intention behind it.

But then something shifted. I kept playing with prompts, kept refining, and at some point it stopped feeling like a toy and started feeling like an actual creative tool.

Coming from coding, I figured prompting would feel familiar: and it does, but only partly. With code you describe functions, logic, outcomes. With visuals you have to go deeper: style, mood, color palette, lighting, the feeling you want someone to have when they look at it. Sounds a bit cheesy, but it’s real.

Now I use AI images for real things like adding graphics to my projects, exploring visual directions for web pages, testing styles before committing to a design. And sometimes just making something that only exists because my imagination demanded it, or because I want to see my wife laugh at whatever strange thing I generated.

And my favorite part is still those few seconds after you hit generate, before the image loads.

It could disappoint.

Or it could hand you back exactly what was floating in your head with nowhere to go.

When it does, that moment of recognition — that's still creativity. Just finally moving at the speed of my imagination (and a few seconds of waiting to load).