Stock imagery has for the most part become obsolete due to generative AI’s like Midjourney and Flux. We can now conjure high quality images in minutes from a simple prompt describing our scene. They of course do have their limitations, but in many cases, using these tools often saves hours that could have spent scouring a stock image site for just the perfect scene.

I was never much of a writer, but now , I can get a massive head start on a piece of writing by simply speaking a stream of consciousness to my AI assistant and quickly it can begin to structure and refine at speeds I couldn’t have fathomed even a few short years ago.

When it comes to coding, this is where the largest gains in productivity have been. I used to stay away from projects with advanced functionality, for simplicity sake, and if I had to, I would delegate to developers which was an added layer of complexity and often a huge cost. The state of LLM’s have changed this for me, I will only reach out to an external developer in extremely technically challenging situations. Because of my exposure to the coding world through my years as a web developer, I know enough of the terminology to command and direct an AI coder with powerful results. All I have to do is say the magick words, informed by a touch of personal knowledge and expertise and I can guide an AI to conjure functioning modules for websites in a fraction of the time it used to take.