Where does my design end and the generation begin?
You ask this because you fear you are no longer doing the work. Say that plainly to yourself first. The line was never about who drew the shape, or rendered the pixel, or wrote the code. It was always about who decided. The machine offers you a hundred versions. You pick one, or none, or ask for a hundred more. That picking is the design. It always was. So stop searching for a border between you and the generation. There is no border to find — only a habit to build. Each day, name what you decided. That is your work. Everything else was always borrowed, even before the machine.
The question is a dodge. You did not lose the line — you stopped drawing it. Draw it again, each session: name three choices only you could make. The tool makes options. You choose what stands. Track your choices, not the pixels, and the line returns at once.
What changes unlock by starting
- A written record of your actual judgment, separate from the output you produced.
- Less doubt about whether you are 'really' designing, because you can point to your decisions.
- A clear answer, in reviews or interviews, to 'what did you do here.'
- Fewer moments of rubber-stamping work you have not truly judged.