I've also used genAI to write script. It works splendid up to a point, then there is absolutely no way to move the needle further. And it's not even close to renders I would ever publish.

That being said, it's about the same for the code it produces for non purely creative things, but for artistic work, I doubt an LLM in between gives any gain. After all, we do have an interface. A human interface.

Artists mad about AI art ought to welcome this. This is about making art tools better, instead of replacing them entirely. The alternative to this is AI just generating art directly and making tools like Blender obsolete.

This is what I do. It’s been really helpful for taking existing FBX files and handing them off to the agent + Python Blender API to analyze the geometry, convert to GLBs, etc.

+++ Has good examples.

It also sounds like people with little ability can use this argument as a way to say “look how difficult this is for humans”

While it’s just a “you” problem. Some folks have better skills, knowledge and comfort with difficult subjects. And that’s fine.

Surely there's a middle ground where improved APIs can be leveraged by both people and LLMs alike while keeping those APIs approachable? Why is it necessary that changing the python APIs would lead to "need[ing] LLMs for Blender"? I'm nowhere close to an AI maximalist but this criticism seems grounded in execution concerns. I'm definitely not saying that they won't mess this up and make the APIs overly complex, I just don't think that's necessarily going to be the case.

I propose that, for some software, the learning curve is becoming harder to surmount.

Further, I'm suggesting "designed by people to be understood and used by people" might be a hurdle for some future software we might envision.

(Altman's performance is orthogonal as I'm suggesting a new level of software that has not yet been written/conceived.)

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Not everything is abstract art. Sometimes I want my subsurf modifier to only target certain vertex groups, and if I can use AI to make that happen in a few seconds, that's a huge win for me.

Blender (and CAD programs as well) get in the way of creativity.

I know what I want, no idea how to tool my way there.

I spend two months going through YT tutorials, mucking about in Blender in order to figure out how to put together the model I have in my head [1].

(A year later, a new project idea—and it's back to YouTube because the learning is not only a steep curve but also sometimes so esoteric that it's fleeting.)

[1] https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/Space-Tug_3DModel

Absolutely agree - I was not impressed, but it will be a lot easier to work with the tooling without a 10 month crash-course on UI and 3D terminology if I can ask for what I want in plain language instead of knowing which button buried three levels deep to press to get my desired results.