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5/12/2026
Starting Fresh: Three Years of Watching AI Change Everything

Starting Fresh: Three Years of Watching AI Change Everything

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Personal essay tracking three years of AI tool evolution and landscape shifts (2022-2026): ChatGPT's emergence, Claude's adoption beyond chatbots, Stable Diffusion's decline, and Sora's April 2026 shutdown. The author, a Design+CS student, observes that creative and engineering communities experience identical tools very differently—design communities express unease about creative authorship, while engineers view them as productivity multipliers. Documentation, the piece argues, captures not just trends but what quietly disappears.

  • •Tracks AI tool lifecycle: ChatGPT's rise, Stable Diffusion's fall, Sora's shutdown (April 2026)
  • •Design and engineering communities perceive AI differently: threat to authorship vs. productivity multiplier
  • •Advocates for documentation of fast-moving AI landscape to preserve institutional memory

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#ai-tools#market-trend#industry-adoption
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