Comment by marysminefnuf

9 days ago

Its written extensively with ai. I got excited to read but got turned away when i saw the disclaimer.

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bitwize  9 days ago

How sad. "Creative coding" was supposed to be one of the last respites we programmers had from the sloppotron.

  • charcircuit  9 days ago

    Have you looked at other forms of art like images, videos, and music? AI workflows have been incorporated into make such art too.

    • bitwize  9 days ago

      I've found that AI "art" makes human-created art—even if bad—look more refreshing.

    • slopinthebag  9 days ago

      And I will continue to reject all forms of AI generated art. I have zero patience for slop, on both practical and ideological grounds.

makerofthings  9 days ago

That’s disappointing. I’ll give that a miss then.

  • rain-princess  9 days ago

    if you open up the pdf it actually says written with AI...and author's 2 decades of experience with creative coding. i feel like it's a pretty fair disclaimer

  • guiambros  9 days ago

    In the author's defense, I just read a chapter, and it doesn't feel like AI slop. I think they were just being brutally transparent with disclaimers. The author has "two decades of experience teaching creative coding".

    Also the book is beautifully designed. Clearly a lot of effort and taste was put into it (as you'd expect from a Creative Coding book).

    I'm not the target audience, but if this work was only possible because of AI, I'd say this is a win for the world.

    Full disclaimer from the pdf:

    > AI ASSISTANCE

    > This book was created through an extended collaboration between the author, Claude (Anthropic), and ChatGPT (OpenAI). The structure, pedagogical framework, and frustrations catalog emerged from the author’s two decades of teaching creative coding. AI served as writing partner, generating draft content based on detailed prompts while the author provided direction, critique, iteration, and editorial control. AI was also used to generate specific images. All teaching insights, personal anecdotes, and educational philosophy originate from the author’s experience.