There’s some deep comedy imagining the software engineering process as applied to art or music or writing. Would an artist publish a draft of a new painting on GitHub and open it up to pull requests from the community? Would a fiction writer begin a new project by first writing the unit tests that the new novel needs to pass? Would a musician develop a battery of A/B tests on an album and ship “remastered” versions every two weeks? If you find these ideas absurd, it’s interesting to ponder why that is. And if you don’t find these ideas absurd, it’s a wonder why anyone would want to read your poetry / listen to your music / see your art.

This is a post about AI.