🔗 Make stuff, on your own, first
First. I don’t believe you create anything truly good with AI without first deeply your practicing craft in its absence. You have to hone your skills by making things without automation in order to perceive and understand what is truly good in your art. Otherwise the tools of automation will own you.
This point might be about ability, but I think it also applies to developing taste. You may get working code from an LLM, but do you know if it’s any good? Is it maintainable? If the shit were to hit the proverbial fan, would you be able to go on to fix it?
I know from my sessions playing with these things, the answer is usually not great. But being someone who’s been in the coding gig for 17 years, I know good code when I see it (or at least I like to think I do). But it took slogging through so much of it to develop that eye.