My first AI piece took 4 hours of prompts, then I found the undo history
I spent months layering prompts and inpainting in Stable Diffusion thinking every detail had to be hand guided. Then I looked at the raw PNG sequence from an old project and saw the AI had already made most of the decisions I was fighting to override. Realizing my "creative" input was mostly just pruning felt like finding out I'd been using a hammer on a screw this whole time. Has anyone else hit that point where they started trusting the model more than their own tweaking?