Photoshop put professional design software in everyone’s hands. Developing a designer’s eye still took years of practice. @shoshanaberger argues that AI will let people skip many of the early, awkward reps of learning. "Humans learn through the friction of trying and failing and trying again. But automation allows you to skip failure," she writes. Those reps are often how judgment develops. The people who have done them will be able to teach others what good work looks like. In Shoshana's Thesis Statement, she proposes we return to the master and apprentice model of the Renaissance guild:

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I built a Photoshop-like image editor. It’s called Compositor. I originally built it for myself to get off my Adobe subscription, but decided to release it for free and make it open source. It has all the essential tools I need for compositing, with none of the BS. I know this workflow is kind of archaic in 2026, but I’m still using it until AI can actually get pixel-perfect on some of the details. The entire app is 12MB. Photoshop is 6,455MB on my machine.