Creativity lives in the prompt
Against a feed full of Gemini 3 miracles, Minecraft clones, SVG Nintendos, a man coding an app mid-marathon, his brother asks the uncomfortable question: isn't what you make with Suno creative? The answer he defends: the model is stochastic; the creativity is whatever you put in the prompt.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 36:11 (estocástico, no creativo)
- ↳ video diary @ 36:25 (la creatividad va en el prompt)
- ↳ video diary @ 37:22 (mientras tanto, estamos bien)
The spectacle reel first: X is saturated with Gemini 3 demos, a functioning Mac OS clone from one prompt ▸ 13:06, a playable Minecraft with physics ▸ 13:46, an animated Nintendo Switch built entirely from SVG vectors ▸ 16:40, and, his favorite, a man who ran a marathon wearing AR glasses with a laptop in his backpack and finished the race with a finished app ▸ 19:32, the exact explore-the-world-while-coding future he keeps describing for himself ▸ 20:16. Add the n8n newsletter that aggregates twenty sources into 100,000 readers on autopilot ▸ 34:08 and Y Combinator’s announcement that it wants full-stack companies that are their own lawyers and accountants ▸ 31:52, and the residual human role looks thin.
His claim is that what remains is creativity, and his brother attacks it head-on: isn’t what you make with Suno or Veo creative? ▸ 35:45. The defense is technical and clean: the model is stochastic, trained on everything, returning the most probable continuation ▸ 36:04. Ask Veo for “a video” and you get the generic average of all videos. The creativity enters exactly where the probability gets constrained: the zoom here, the rain starting, the cut on the beat, “es ahí donde tú le pones la creatividad” ▸ 36:25.
el modelo devuelve lo probable; lo improbable, que es lo creativo, lo pones tú →
He keeps the honest asterisk: AlphaGo-style systems produce moves that look creative, and he can’t rule out that human creativity is also brute search over imagined scenarios ▸ 36:48. But the working conclusion is a species-level status report delivered deadpan over thunder: “mientras que la IA no tenga creatividad, yo creo que estamos bien como especie humana” ▸ 37:22. The job description shrinks to the part of the prompt no model would have written…
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