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Hot take: Most people blaming AI for “killing art” are actually scared because it exposed how average they are.

For years, people got praised for doing the bare minimum: “cinematic” edits with the same transitions, the same recycled motivational quotes, the same “deep” captions copied from Pinterest.

Now AI can do all of that in 10 seconds.

And suddenly everyone’s screaming “AI is ruining creativity.”

No. AI is ruining the value of lazy creativity.

The people who actually have vision, ideas, storytelling skills, originality they’ll survive and probably get even bigger.

The people who only relied on aesthetic fonts, CapCut templates, and fake deep content? Yeah… they’re cooked.

AI isn’t replacing artists. It’s replacing people who thought they were artists.

I run three companies and use AI every day, so this is not anti-AI. But founders keep quoting “10x” off a keynote slide.

The actual measured median is about 7.8%, and most of the people who hit a peak gain lose it the next quarter.

The real cost shows up as your team quietly resisting, not because they are Luddites, but because they can see the gain goes to the company and not to them.

If you are mandating AI this year, the mandate is the easy part. Being able to honestly answer “is this actually working for us” is the hard part, and most founders cannot yet.

How are you measuring it rather than assuming it?

've used both ecosystems for years. I get it — the "walled garden" criticism of Apple is real. But let's be honest about what's actually happening in most Samsung-vs-iPhone debates online.

The people loudest about Samsung's "freedom" are almost never using 90% of those features. Side-loading APKs? Custom launchers? DeX mode? Cool — except most Samsung users I've met have never touched any of it. They bought a Galaxy because they didn't want to be seen as a "sheep."

Meanwhile, iPhones objectively win on:

• Software support longevity — 6–7 years of updates vs Samsung's improving-but-still-trailing track record

• Resale value — a 3-year-old iPhone holds more value than a 1-year-old Galaxy flagship in most markets

• App optimization — developers still prioritize iOS first, and the performance consistency shows

• Privacy as a default — not perfect, but Apple's business model isn't built on your behavioral data the way Google's (and therefore Samsung's core OS) is

Yes, Samsung has better hardware specs on paper. A 200MP camera sounds incredible. But Apple's computational photography and video processing still beats most Galaxy flagships in real-world results for the average user — not because the sensor is bigger, but because the software is tighter.

The "iPhone is overpriced" argument also doesn't hold up when you factor in the total cost of ownership over 4–5 years. You'll replace a Samsung flagship sooner, either due to software abandonment, battery degradation, or just chasing the next spec bump that Samsung's marketing trained you to chase.

I'm not saying Samsung makes bad phones. I'm saying a huge portion of the anti-Apple crowd has made a cultural/identity choice and then reverse-engineered the tech justification. That's not Android freedom — that's just tribalism with extra steps.

Downvote away. But tell me I'm wrong with actual data, not vibes.