opinion

A collection of 69 posts

ai

Voidstomper's 3 Million Followers Prove the Glitch is the Point

The anonymous AI horror artist has built the largest following for AI-native visual art by embracing everything other artists try to hide.

ai

The AI Desktop War Isn't About AI — It's About "Creative Leverage"

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are racing to build the ultimate AI desktop experience, but they're solving completely different problems.

ai

How I Finally Solved AI Image Consistency (While I Sleep)

After a year of inconsistent AI-generated images, I built an automated system that reviews and retouches them until they pass inspection.

ai

What Will Being a Creative in 2028 Look Like?

AI tools went from mildly useful to holy shit in a matter of months. So what does it mean to be a creative two years from now?

opinion

You Gave Yourself That Title Too

Everyone's so quick to gatekeep the word "artist" — but if we're being honest, you gave yourself that title the same way the AI person did.

ai-workflow Featured

How We Built Our AI Content Pipeline (And What's Actually Running It)

A transparent breakdown of how The Daring Creatives content pipeline actually works — Obsidian, Ghost, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork — and why I built it this way.

opinion

Cutting Out the Middleman (I Used to Be One)

Jack Dorsey just had all 6,000 Block employees report directly to him. As someone who used to be a middle manager, I think he's right.

storytelling

The Showrunner: What AI Cinema Actually Built with Fruit Love Island

Everyone called it AI slop. Nobody noticed they were watching episodes 1 through 19 of a serialized show maintained by a single anonymous creator shipping daily.

ai Featured

The Anti-AI Mob Has Gotten Vicious

Something ugly is happening in the AI conversation, and I'm getting worried about where it's headed.

ai-workflow

Chat, Cowork, Code, and Dispatch — How I Actually Use the Whole Suite

Four shapes of the same collaborator — chat, Cowork, Code, and dispatch — and how I actually use each one at The Daring Creatives.

opinion

You Don't Owe Skeptics a Debate

The skeptics aren't protecting anyone. They're just mad someone built something without asking permission first.

insights

The Company That Eats Its Own Cooking

Anthropic's engineers use Claude for 59% of their work now. What happens when the people building AI are also the ones most dependent on it?

opinion

The Marketing Manager Job Is Quietly Dying

A senior marketing manager role hit my inbox this week paying $22/hr. That's not a market dip — that's a role being quietly retired. Here's what I think replaces it.

ai-workflow

The AI You Never Have to Open

Anthropic is testing an always-on agent called Conway — and it points at a version of AI that's fundamentally different from the tab you open and close.

opinion

You're Not Defending Art, You're Just Being Mean

Hannah Einbinder called AI creators "losers" who will "never be cool." Let's talk about what that actually defends — and who it hurts.

creative-tools

I Bought the Meta Glasses. Here's My Honest Take.

I own a pair of Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses and reach for them less than I expected. Here's what actually works, what doesn't, and what I'd need to change my mind.

storytelling

The Transformer: How James Gerde Turned Other People's Videos into Something Completely Different

James Gerde didn't start by generating video from scratch. He took existing footage and completely reimagined what it could look like — and that distinction turns out to matter a lot.

opinion

The Loneliness of Building Before Anyone Is Watching

An honest look at what it feels like to build something before anyone's paying attention — the self-doubt, the friends who quietly disappear, and why that first person who raises their hand changes everything.

opinion

The Permission to Start Over

The hardest part of reinvention isn't learning a new skill. It's convincing yourself you're allowed to start.

ai

Anthropic Just Dropped Their Biggest Report Yet. Here's What It Actually Means for Creatives.

Anthropic's March 2026 Economic Index and labor market research contain some of the most concrete data we've seen on what AI is actually doing to creative work.

soft skills

The Skill That Nobody Puts in the Job Description

The thing nobody puts in the job description is the last thing AI will ever replace.

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dispatch

Dispatch #5: Connection Stable

Toxic Threads

Toxic @Threads: Someone posted their first image, the internet killed them for it.

Nobody argued with what I said. They argued with what they assumed I meant.

opinion

The Violent Death of SaaS

If you are a SaaS founder sitting on a generic "workflow optimizer" or a basic CRM, you should be very, very nervous.

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dispatch

Dispatch #4: The Pirates Handshake