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- cross-posted to:
- programmer_humor@programming.dev
- fuck_ai@lemmy.world
Twonks | Bluesky
Transcript
TW😶NKS
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. White text on black
AI Design Logic
Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.
Guy: Get me a cheese pizza
Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.
Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.
Guy: Wow, look what I made!
As someone who builds things from scratch, this is how I feel about people who 3D print things
Where do you draw the line? I’m a hobbyist woodworker, but I don’t cut, mill, or dry the wood myself. I didn’t even plant the tree - it likely came from another country entirely.
I also didn’t make most of my tools and I use prefabricated fasteners and screws, whereas my grandfather, a professional woodworker, made many of his own tools and primarily used joinery.
Does that mean I’m not a true woodworker?
I find that quite dismissive as someone who spends ages in CAD designing 3D printable mechanisms. There are more design constraints with making a 3D printable design.
They didn’t make this distinction but I think there is a clean line separating 3D printing like “I’m printing a mini for my TTRPG” and 3D printing like “I’m printing 15,000 discrete armor plates to assemble my mech cosplay.”
Basically, if you are printing parts to assemble something than you are still assembling something. If you print out a thing that you’re immediately “using”, eh…you just had something delivered.
If you design and print the thing though, that is still creating something, just using different tools to construct the thing that you visualised in your mind.
Oh, well, yeah. You made the design.
I hold no exclusionary love for handmade crafts. I just know I’ve downloaded things off the internet that got printed, but I would never claim I made those things.