Creative Coding in the Age of AI

The author explores how generative AI tools that automate creative thinking and decision-making challenge traditional artistic practices and the value of creative friction. Comparing modern tools to historical automation debates and MIT's 1979 'Put That There' demonstration, the article argues that while lowering barriers to entry is beneficial, inductive AI removes the intimate craft and happy accidents essential to meaningful creative work. Consequently, artists may need to purposefully reintroduce functional frictions to maintain a human connection to their art. Open article →