Yeah exactly, the real skill comes from knowing how to push the AI to give you something usable and then actually doing the work to make it look right. I've spent way too many nights sifting through 80 variations of a prompt just to find two or three that even work as a base layer. The ones who get it are the ones who treat it like digital collage - you grab pieces from different generations, mask them together, fix the wonky hands with a brush tool, and actually put in the effort. It's not just about the prompt, it's about the whole pipeline of tweaks and manual fixes that turns a decent AI output into something that feels intentional.

Probably told him it builds character or something.

Ugh I read somewhere the average person spends like $1,100 a year on coffee and it made me SO mad at myself lol.

Huh, I used to be team "just eyeball it" but yeah this makes total sense now.

lmao the burnt dirt mixed with gravel description is way too accurate. It's wild how we just accept bad coffee for years because we don't know any better. The biggest difference for me was that I could finally taste the actual coffee notes instead of just "hot brown liquid." Did you end up buying a nicer grinder after that camping trip or did you stick with the hand grinder for a while?