I'm still practicing my human art skills, my 3d modeling, sculpting, painting, my fundamentals.

I'm still struggling to learn programming the hard way, only using a bot on my own GPU as a last resort to rubber-duck or explain higher-level concepts to my thick skull.

Screw this hardware inflation, I'm holding out and keeping old machines around and I'll drop back several tech-generations if I have to.

I'm hoping if anything , my perseverance will be rewarded in a post-Ai-bubble world where I'm considered good at what I do, especially after the majority had simply thrown up their hands, given up, and brain-atrophied after they saw a generated Will Smith believably slurping 65 lbs of spaghetti and everything under the sun "But as a Miyazaki film."

It's a monster that feeds on our fears to drive us into despair. We should refuse to let it see us flinch.