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But I didn't ask AI, is this new version of the software any good? That's a really pretty bad question because essentially, who's it for? Who's it good for? What's it good for? Of course, it's a good piece of software.

It's a very nicely coded piece of software.

I essentially asked AI this question.

You know how I use this software.

do I really need this upgrade? And that's a different question than saying, is this any good? Because I primarily have two uses for the software.

The first one is I would use it to do some forensic birding.

So essentially, I took a bird picture that I did this weekend, far shore of a lake.

And I'm trying to zoom in close enough to that picture and trying to figure out what that bird is, which means I have approximately 17 pixels that may be a part of the wing.

And what this software does is it cleans up the image so nicely that I'm able to zoom right in, sharpen it, and then stare at the screen and say, okay, which duck is that? What kind of duck is that? And I found, by doing this this weekend with that software, I found some things in the far shore that I couldn't see with my own eyes, but I saw that were there.

I saw you, Long Bill Dowater.

But then there's times, you know, these are times where I don't really care about the quality of the picture.

I just am trying to figure out what that duck is over there.

And the other use is quite the opposite.

I take a picture.

It's at the marsh.

There's a sunset, a beautiful sky.

And I think, oh, this would make a really nice wallpaper on my computer.

And so what I want is essentially a basic button that says make this pretty.

And I don't want it to become a professional photography.

I'm not going to sell it.

And I don't want to spend 17 hours just trying to pick a picture and make it pretty.

So I'm trying to adjust it, but I don't care the level of cyan and the shades and all this other stuff.

So I use a considerable amount of its intelligence as part of its photography to make my Northwoods Marsh look gorgeous.

So in both those use cases, when I asked AI, do I really need this upgrade? I could have it look at all the wonderful new things that this product did, compare them to what my goals of photography software is, and ask the question, is this for me? And the answer I got back was no.

The new version genuinely has some interesting improvements, and they were great features, but I don't use any of those features.