There’s a lot of noise right now around AI and filmmaking.Some of it is excited. Some of it is fearful. Most of it skips over the part that actually matters:  how humans and tools work together in practice . As a producer, I don’t see AI as a replacement for creative judgment. I see it as something much more familiar — a tool that becomes powerful  only  when it’s guided by structure, intention, and experience. The truth is, producers have always worked alongside systems. Sch