Shawn Wang: belief

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…So Hill and playground are doing like exceptional work on that kind of domain of, uh, I don't know if it's auto-aggressive, but around kind of image editing and not just the kind of text to image and actually building like a UI for like a Photoshop kind of thing for actual generation of images versus, uh, just doing text. It's fascinating. I just thought diffusion was kind of dead. Like there wasn't that much, it was just like bigger models. You know, higher detail and now auto-aggressive come along and now like the whole field is open. Yeah. Um, and I think like, if there was any real threat to like Photoshop or Canva, it's this thing. Yeah. Just to wrap up the conversation, you have a great post called, sorry, you must pass, which if I did the math right, you first wrote in 2007, the first version, and then you re-updated it post COVID, you mentioned you made a lot of changes to your schedule and your life based on the pandemic. How do you make decisions today? You know, in the, as anything changed, like since you, because you updated this in 2022 and I think now we're kind of like, you know, five years removed from COVID and all of that. I'm curious if you made any changes. Yeah.…

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