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

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

As soon as AI touches it, it's not art anymore

It's just content at that point

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

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

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

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

If someone gave me an ice cream cone and said "this is 99% ice cream and 1% cow shit", that would be a fair disclaimer. I still wouldn't lick it.

I used AI to do a lot of stress testing and to see what patterns fall out of the setting rule I wrote. Helped a lot with grammar checking and general editing. Brainstorming too.

When you write enough materials, the AI generated output started becoming less generic and actually interesting. Really cool. Still wouldn't use the generated output. The ideas, yes, but not the words.

I write every single word. It's not a shortcut by any means. Just means that your work can be narratively and technically more rigorous. Using AI to generate stories for you defeat the purpose.

If it didn't take you at least an hour to create something worthwhile, it's likely that you generated slop.

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.

Another one trying to make some hay .. oh well