When to NOT Use AI

AI in Practice, No Fluff — Day 10/10 Last week I needed to generate cover images for a blog series. Ten posts, two sizes each. I opened an AI design tool, described what I wanted, and waited. The results were unusable. Garbled text, wrong colors, layouts that ignored every parameter I gave it. I spent an hour trying different prompts, adjusting descriptions, regenerating. Nothing worked. Then I wrote an HTML template. Loaded our exact fonts, plugged in the hex colors, added a CSS gradient. Rende