Output quality and reliability

“I believe excessive usage depletes human creativity so I do not rely on AI too much to do all the hammering for me. Also when using it to explore new tools the AI quite often hallucinates about the tools' features or functions and specifications and draws away from the main objective of the project for which the AI is assisting on using the tool which could be some relatively new or unknown tool. This barrier often constricts the reliability of AI to make best possible use of tools such as say Wonder since it guesses about the tools features and visibility rather than realistic introspection. So AI hallucination is a big barrier.”

Cost and tool overload

“Subscriptions are a big thing. One subscription costs like $20 for basic tiers and if you don't have at least one it feels like you fall behind. The output isn't the best for big designs so I only really use it for mood boarding or questions. For actual coding, I prompt Claude code or Cursor and then make alterations myself.”

“Too many AI tools to evaluate, frequent model changes, inconsistent outputs between models, and keeping up with rapid updates.”

Workflow integration

“AI tools are too scattered right now and there aren't enough ways to harness the actual power of AI. Some tools work awesome but some still require a lot of prompting and iteration. I get into a loop of iterations over iterations that lead to nothing.”

“My main barrier is workflow reliability: keeping context, preserving reasoning, integrating with my existing tools, and reducing cleanup after AI generation.”

Privacy and intellectual property

“AI lacks cultural nuances of regional music, vehicle logistics precision, and cinematic standards. Ethically, I am deeply concerned about environmental impacts and severe data privacy risks regarding the potential leak or unauthorized training of my studio's unreleased intellectual property.”

Client trust

“Trust: knowing when AI output is reliable enough to use and how to keep the final work from becoming generic. The tools are powerful, but the workflow still requires a lot of human review, taste, and context.”

“I won't say clients don't want AI used but there certainly is a stigma attached. They often want it to not look like AI was used.”

Learning and rapid change

“Mostly it's cost prices or AI not producing a good enough result, however, in the past year I have noticed that the quality of things has increased tremendously, so right now my issue is that I am not even aware of all the tools out there and all their capabilities, as it's so many of them! It's hard to keep up at this point.”

Loss of craft or judgment

“I worry about reducing my own skills and knowledge by relying too much on AI.”