On Drawing Owls: Intent, Generative Agents and the Weirdening of Tools

There's always been a long gap between an idea and its realisation, between the sketch and the building, the script and the film, the design and the product. After drawing the first circles, the rest of the owl took years. Generative agents can now draw an owl almost instantly. But a generic owl with polish can easily be mistaken for the one you held in your head, so the circles you are drawing matter more than ever.I'll share working practices I've developed for keeping hold of intent, and an open question. As software starts shaping itself around whoever uses it, everyone becomes a circle drawer. Will that pull us all toward the same defaults, or open up a weirdening where tools carry people's intent?