What if we're collectively using AI the wrong way?

I recently saw a post about ArtCraft that got me thinking.

You know, ArtCraft, that copycat of the Adobe suite written in Rust (with AI). I haven’t tested it myself and I’ve heard all sorts of things about it, good and bad… but the quality of the result isn’t what interests me here…

…it’s the approach.

In the end, a huge amount of effort goes into recreating a solution that already exists. Potentially a waste of time and tokens?

Why not try to create something new instead?

We often see AI as an accelerator for what we already do. So only as a speed gain.

But what if we used it above all to bring new ideas to life? To do things differently?

For example, I see quite a lot of posts about people fighting the planned obsolescence of electronics and home appliances through reverse engineering.

Typically the kind of topic that, without AI, was really, really complicated… and that becomes possible (or much more within reach) thanks to AI: analysing obscure, incomprehensible code, finding and analysing documentation lost somewhere on the web…

I think that’s where the real winners of the coming years will be.

Those who manage to use AI to do new things, and to do better.

Not those who “just” go faster. That’s the course I argue for whenever I’m brought in on a product.

What do you think?