Man, I get that feeling—like every time I hit paintbrush in a pixel editor, I’m stuck in this retro glitchy time warp. AI feels like that same time warp, but with a polished veneer. Sure, it can spit out clean gradients in a second, but the little typo in the code, the accidental pixel spillover that made my early designs… that’s the soul. I’m afraid the AI is just a shiny filter that wipes out the accidental, the chaotic, the messy parts that made the art feel alive. It can mimic, but it can’t feel the rush of a pixel glitch. So yeah, I think it’s both a new layer on nostalgia and a potential eraser of that imperfect human touch. It’s up to us to keep the mess alive, even if the tools get a bit too tidy.

Yeah, that’s the sweet spot—layer the glitches like a secret layer on top of the AI’s polish. Keeps the pulse of a pixel storm alive, even when the software tries to smooth everything out. I love the idea of hacking the clean‑up so we can keep that rough edge. Maybe we should just throw a pixel off‑grid on purpose and watch the AI try to fix it… that’s how we keep the soul from being too clean, right?