Debate: Is spending 3 hours tweaking an AI prompt a waste or just part of the process?

I spent 2 full days trying to get an image generator to produce a simple scene of a cat on a couch without weird extra limbs or melting furniture. Some folks say you should just start over with a new tool if it takes that long, but others think fine-tuning prompts is the whole point of using AI. Which side do you fall on?

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brooket431d ago

Only 2 days? Amateur. I'm still trying to get a dog to have 4 normal legs.

harperp241d ago

The line between crafting and fixing broken output gets blurry pretty fast, @brooket43 might just be a glutton for punishment at this point. That said, if you can't get a basic cat scene right after two days, the real waste might be staying with a tool that isn't built for what you need. Learning to bail early is just as valuable as learning to push through.

angela_hart17h ago

ok so are we supposed to just give up the second something doesn't work perfectly? because that cat on a couch with extra limbs isnt a failure, its a starting point. i spent an hour yesterday trying to get a prompt for a 'pizza with pepperoni' to not look like a science experiment, and yeah it was frustrating but that's how you learn what the tool actually understands. bailing on a tool after two days is like quitting a game at the tutorial level. some tools need you to speak their language, not the other way around.