Our artist is on vacation, and some fool gave the CEO access to Midjourney.

In my opinion, generative AI pictures make a blog post feel cheaper and less truthful. Just my view, I fully accept that I'm probably in a minority of opinion.

I agree with you since it adds absolutely no value to the article. Technical articles don't need unrelated pictures that add huge page breaks.

FWIW, I enjoyed how the pictures were adding a little theme, were consistent and broke up the reading nicely without being too "noisy" (compared to e.g. technical articles full of meme pictures).

These synthetic artifacts will come to be regarded as psychological asbestos.

Please consider labelling it, and giving provenance data. And protecting public sanity by putting it behind a clickwall.

What is this trifling and snobby driveby commentary doing in the comments of an otherwise interesting article?

I think it's useful to impose a social cost for using plagarism machines to make slop.