[jawns]

It did strike me as ironic that the article is about ruthlessly automating to avoid paying QA engineers, and it uses AI to avoid paying illustrators.

[willsmith72]

not saying this is you, but i get so tired of feedback about ai-generated images along the lines of "you're taking money away from local artists"

it's not one or the other. in my experience it's a decision of "no images" vs "ai images".

in this case, probably "no images" would've been better for the reading experience. but there was never any illustrator getting paid