Confusing Labor With Creativity
marcel.io
Creativity comes from ideas, choices, and vision—not from how much work a project takes. AI can handle routine tasks without removing the human intent behind a creation. We should judge creative work by its result, not just the labor involved.
13 Nov 2026
Much of the labor involved in creating software doesn't add any value to the final product. It's simply the work required to get from an idea to its execution. Work that, until recently, couldn't be avoided.
And I think that's where we're getting confused again. We're treating the elimination of labor as the elimination of creativity, when those are two very different things.
The value of creative work lies in the ideas, decisions, and vision behind it, not in how difficult the tools make it to bring those things to life.