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Jared_RDC
Jared_RDC
Participant
March 2, 2026
Question

How long will it take before the role of "prompter" is transferred to an agent?

  • March 2, 2026
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Seeing as nodes and more artist-integrated methods of AI integration haven’t been prioritized as the most crucial part of AI in the realm of “art” or visual creation, and word-bases prompting continues to be the hyper-focus of these technologies, how long should we assume word-based prompting will be only in the hands of artists who would be doing this work with or without AI tools? 

In simple terms: how long can we expect for humans to be in the role of “prompter” before it switches to an agentic AI team working exclusively for managers? 

Why should artists trust that word-based prompting, which utilizes only a small amount of their skills and has no tactile inputs, won’t be given at some point to agents? 

The imagination behind these “tools” seems to be geared more for shareholder profits versus tools to empower truly amazing art that comes from the hands of an artist. 

Prove me wrong by getting nodes in place, sketch and overlay marker integration, lighting tools, preview drafts that don’t cost credits, tools that create patterns based off the artist’s work versus a word-prompt… if we don’t add some imagination to these tools, and stay locked in to primarily word-based workflows, there’s absolutely no reason to trust that the market won’t do what it always does: cut costs to maximize profits. When are the artists getting cut? 

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    Kartika Rawat
    Community Manager
    Kartika RawatCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    March 3, 2026

    Hi Jared_RDC!

    Thank you for sharing your concerns. Text prompting is only one early interface, not the end goal of creative AI. Professional creative tools are evolving toward deeper artist control: sketch-based generation, layer-aware workflows, lighting and composition controls, style systems trained on an artist’s own work, and hybrid manual/AI processes.

    The future of creative AI is co-creation — not replacing artists with agents. High-level creative work still requires taste, authorship, context, and vision. Those aren’t cost-cutting functions; they’re differentiators.

    If tools ever reduced artists to simple prompt typists, that would be a failure of the ecosystem. Our direction is toward expanding creative control, not removing it.

    We appreciate the push for more imaginative, artist-integrated tools, and feedback is exactly what shapes where things go next.

     

    Let us know if you have any questions. 

    Kartika

    Jared_RDC
    Jared_RDCAuthor
    Participant
    March 6, 2026

    Kartika, this all sounds amazing, but when do we get to see it demonstrated or imagined in Adobe’s promotions? We’ve seen Adobe marketing and pitching agentic workflows, but on the artist side of things, we’re still only limited to the text-based prompt box. Surely there’s some imagination on Adobe’s end to what a high-powered AI workflow could look like if it was centered on a master artist… 

    I think it’s easy to see why we’re uneasy here: Adobe is marketing towards agentic, the push is publicly for agentic. Until we see a public pushing for where these tools COULD go that are more artist-centered, this question of agents replacing artists is relevant. 

    (The real trend of mid-level, client side managers, or even their CEOs, micromanaging a project is a factor here; it’s not hard to imagine that they might cut out artists in favor of agentic approaches, sating their need for more local control and real cost savings). 

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