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Now, I've experimented and made utility software with AI (on my website, disclosed as such, including source). I wouldn't call them vibe-coded: I'd ask for a function, read, understand, integrate, test, and debug it. Its similar to a pre-AI workflow except I'm not constantly going back to examples.

The content serves up by AI is always ethically dubious at best, but also the modern internet has that process baked in. These days, there's not a functional or computational difference in asking Gemini for an example of a JS canvas draw function, or using it through search to direct you to one.

I'm not minimizing, its proliferation has just hijacked the process. Using digital tools and to do better, faster work was always part of the job of the digital artist, so it seems systemically impossible now to not leverage it, moral implications aside, even if I want to do the drawing myself.