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Everyone can generate a stunning image now. So the skill moved.
Midjourney (and the rest) made "make me something beautiful" a solved problem. Which means the value isn't in the generation anymore — it's in everything around it:
→ taste, to pick the 1 good frame out of 40 generic...
"AI-generated" has become an insult in design and code. Fair — most of it is generic slop.
But the tool isn't the problem; skipping judgment is. How I ship fast with AI without the output looking or breaking like it was vibe-coded:
→ I bring the architecture and the taste; the AI...
A scraper that "works on my machine" but 403s in production? Check your User-Agent before anything else.
Python's default urllib User-Agent gets blocked by a huge number of sites instantly. The fix is one line — send a real browser User-Agent — but the failure looks like a...
The #1 reason LLM automations break in production: you trusted the model to return clean data.
Ask an LLM for JSON and most of the time you get JSON — then one call comes back with a markdown fence, a missing field, or a chatty "Sure! Here's your data:" and your whole pipeline...