I quit my Google software engineering job and became a watercolor artist. Here’s how I’m using — and not using

Former Google software engineer who quit in 2022 and now runs Swil Arts as a watercolor artist in San Diego.
Uses AI for business tasks—planning, bookkeeping, copyediting, mock-ups—and trains custom GPTs as an art coach and opportunity filter, but never to generate or ideate her actual artwork.
Prefers sketching on location and sharing “California moments worth keeping”; cautious about AI’s ethical and environmental impacts yet optimistic it can augment (not replace) artists.

I quit my Google software engineering job and became a watercolor artist. Here’s how I’m using — and not using — AI.