22/05/2025
🎬 “I’m AI.”
A phrase.
A refusal.
A fear of becoming obsolete.
— Look.
— What?
— The image is blurry. I ran it through a neural net for noise reduction and color correction. Took ten seconds.
— Turn it off. I’m AI.
My video editor said that.
He stared at the screen like a surgeon looks at a robotic scalpel — skeptical, unwilling to trust a machine without the warmth of a human hand.
Then he sat down at the timeline and started working — adjusting noise, color, camera motion. Frame by frame, layer by layer.
Half an hour later, the result was honest. Solid. But no better than the AI’s. Only… 180 times slower.
I said nothing.
But in that moment, I realized:
this isn’t about technology.
It’s about identity.
📌 “If I did this for 10 years — and now the machine does it in 10 seconds — then who am I?”
Many professionals still resist giving up control — composers, editors, sound designers.
For them, manual precision still feels more real than automated speed.
And maybe that’s fair.
They represent something noble: craftsmanship, authorship, human intent.
But in the new system, their role isn’t defined.
No one says: “you matter here.”
They’re just nudged off the stage: “you’re no longer needed.”
That’s where resistance is born.
🎯 It’s not a replacement. It’s a shift in gravity.
Once, a developer hand-coded light correction algorithms.
Now, AI handles it in a blink.
But the developer isn’t obsolete.
They’ve just moved — from code executor to architect of visual logic.
Once, a journalist traveled for interviews.
Now, they can assign AI to gather 20 sources —
and focus on what really matters: what it means to be human.
We don’t lose mastery.
We lose the shape it used to have.
This isn’t a downgrade.
It’s evolution.
🔍 Professions already shifting:
• Not an editor — a curator of generative editing
• Not a designer — an architect of visual choice
• Not a copywriter — an editor of AI streams
• Not a teacher — a navigator of personal learning paths
In these roles, humans aren’t pushed out —
they’re still at the core.
But now not as hands — as direction, taste, essence.
🛠 The craft is still here. But the question has changed.
It used to be:
👉 What can you do by yourself?
Now it’s:
👉 What can you do with everything available — better than others?
AI isn’t a cheat.
It’s electricity.
And if you don’t learn it — you’ll be left in the dark.
🧭 Final thought
AI isn’t a threat to masters.
It’s only a threat to those afraid to evolve.
And if you’ve felt that fear —
it means you’re alive.
It means you’re still growing.
