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Speak for yourself.
It is common for people who start learning a skill to talk that way; They believe they have a strong grasp on some kind of thinking and in practice they find out they are way behind.. They call it Dunning-Kruger something? In people who are learning art or design i see it all the time, people talk about their "visual ideas" and then get frustrated because they can't put them into paper. A lot of their visual ideas are Imitation without personality. When the student starts to develop a language they gain an added feeling of empowerment: They have connected many forms of knowledge and experience that once existed arbitrarily in their heads. They have a method a system and i repeat visual language. It's one of the biggest tells of AI slop images in the wild. You can't see a person, you see the diffusion model itself, and often times since diffusion models need to take information from training that casts a very wide net it looses any personality or distinct voice.
Lastly; we often confuse "making art" with "making a product" and forget that art is a form of communication itself. If people rely on translators instead of learning a language, do they really "think" in that language?
You can make a product: Write a novel in German even if you barely speak that language by inputting your English text into google translate and carefully and editing the output as best you can. But there is a communicative barrier between you and your product. You don't really think in German, you don't know the slang, and the nuances of the language by relying on the translator.