Anyone here using BricksFusion?

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I am looking for people who are using the BricksFusion plugin (especially the BricksFusion Studio part of it) and have real life experience with it. I am thinking about trying to use AI for layout prototyping and I hope it would speed up my workflow.

The website and the plugin seems well built with lots of extras that I could use.

What are your opinions?

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Nope, any AI add-on I feel is garbage. I don’t understand the logic behind it –- why do people want to take short cuts? You learn less and produce poor quality in my view.

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I understand your point but in my opinion AI should be considered as a tool, just as Bricks Builder. Both helps you reach your goal: building a website. If it can help you solve repetitive tasks I think it is not a problem if you use AI for your advantage. I hope this clarifies my question.

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I do not see AI being an advantage at any stage.

  1. It will make people dumber, as they will learn less and they will depend more on something telling how to do something.
  2. It is bad for the environment, as it sucks our resources dry (power and water)
  3. It WILL eliminate our jobs (maybe not all, but the majority).
  4. People. People are greedy and selfish – you give them a tool, they will exploit it for their own gain. Just look at what we are seeing now.
  5. If you repetitive in your tasks, then it is you who needs to rework how they work/code.
  6. Speed is not everything, quality product is. Be professional and don’t be lazy. We built the digital age we are in without AI, I think we can continue to do it without it.

So, I hear what you are saying, but I disagree 100%. AI is not a tool, it is an excuse. But again, these are my views – some based on facts, some based on my own personal opinions.

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Hey, just a nice conversation :slight_smile:

  1. Disagree. A dumb person wouldn’t be able to use AI as well as a clever person. There will be selection and those who are learning this new tool will succeed.
  2. Agree very much.
  3. Agree but this is inevitable with new technologies emerging. Just to name a few: Telephone switchboard operators, mostly women, manually connected calls in large rooms before automatic exchanges made their jobs obsolete. Ice cutters harvested ice from frozen rivers and lakes for food preservation until household refrigerators eliminated the entire industry. Lamplighters who lit gas streetlamps every evening disappeared with the spread of electric lighting.
  4. Dont understand this, sorry :slight_smile:
  5. I would rather spend more time with my other hobbies or my family then clicking 1000s of times to build a layout in Bricks. I think even if you are a perfect master of the Bricks Builder there will be repetitive tasks for you to do which can be done with AI. At least in my other coding projects it helps a lot (hours of extra work per day, I am more productive).
  6. The AI monster is out, we cannot push it back to the magic lamp. I will use it for my advantage as well as with others to save time and hassle.

I also see your point but I think life is too short to deny an affordable new tool from myself that helps getting work done faster and better. Yes, I think the quality with cautious prompting would be better than coding myself :slight_smile:

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Just a couple reflections on what you said.

Your argument on point 3. has been debunked many times. To say because we had innovation in the past, that this form of innovation will just lead to people doing different jobs. This is incorrect. Looks what happened with the industrial revolution and tell me if industrial automation was/is good for civilization. Also, what are people to do when they don’t have work? Just doing their new favorite hobbies all day? Who is going to pay for that? The rich? Nope! (see my comment below).

For 4. – look at what is happening now with wage and economic disparity. Do you really think the tech giants are going to give the common person back the money they are taking and exploiting from us? No.

What did people do before? Did they not spend time with their loved ones and doing the things they wanted to do? They did, so why cannot they not now? Why do they need AI make that possible? Well, we could wait until you are found redundant and lose your job, then you will have lots of time on your hands – but that outcome is not a good one.

As for making things faster and easier – I 100% again disagree. Most people use AI because they DON’T know how to do something. So then how do you know the code that is being creating for you is safe and not malicious? Do you know that research has shown that 45 to over 50% of AI code contains security vulnerabilities? Did you know that the majority of devs who use AI to generate code do not test or vet the code they are putting into production. This is insane.

So if you think that AI makes you faster and better at your job, I think you might be misguided. here is an hypothetical for you – so a chef gets a food processors to make the cutting of onions, carrots, and celery faster. Yet in doing so (science has proven this) the chef’s knife skill decrease. Why? Because the less you do something, the less you know of that something. Science has show the more we practice, the better we become, not because someone else did it for us.

In any event, people can do what they want to do at the end of the day – but I know doing drugs is not good for me and will shorten my life, so I don’t do drugs. I know AI will take the profession that I have been doing for the last 15 years if I let it – so best not let it.

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We don’t have to agree on everything. You don’t have to use it. I use it because it helps me. Not because I am incapable by myself but it makes me efficient. Have a nice day!

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Yes of course – we all see things differently, all is good. =]

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