The watercolor framing is closer to my experience than the director one.
A director can assume the camera person will push back if a shot is unusable. An LLM will cheerfully hand you something that compiles, looks polished in the demo path, and quietly fails on the cases you didn't spell out. Retakes help, but only if you already know which frames are wrong.
That's the part of the steak essay that lands for me: the machine will follow a recipe at scale. Judging "this is charcoal dressed as medium-rare" is still on you.
A director can assume the camera person will push back if a shot is unusable. An LLM will cheerfully hand you something that compiles, looks polished in the demo path, and quietly fails on the cases you didn't spell out. Retakes help, but only if you already know which frames are wrong.
That's the part of the steak essay that lands for me: the machine will follow a recipe at scale. Judging "this is charcoal dressed as medium-rare" is still on you.