Where AI belongs.
Last week, while vibe coding, creating real time interactions between gesture and sound through code, I realized something. For the first time, AI felt like a true collaborator, not a tool translating human intent into something it wasn't built for.
But when I look at my other work, visual design, photography, art direction, even planning meals for fifteen at Sverre Fehn’s house, the story flips. There, AI becomes auxiliary. I use it for the quantitative backbone: scaling recipes, timing logistics, the invisible math. But the guest experiences only what I've crafted, the intention, the care, the human moment.
The pattern is clear. AI thrives in mediums born from computation, interaction design, generative systems where the tradition is the human machine dialogue. But in disciplines rooted in centuries of human craft, it's a planning tool, not the creator. The craft still has to come from you.
Maybe the real insight is simpler: knowing where to let AI lead and where to keep it backstage. That's where taste lives.
HCI: Human–computer interaction