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Taste is still what separates AI output from human output regardless of whether it's music or software, IMO. Thinking in modes vs. functional harmony, how you hear a chord in context, which voicing you reach for etc. are things that can hardly be abstracted into strict music theory, let alone pattern-matched.

I imagine you can get pretty close to replicating an artist's sound if you specifically train on their output, but at that point it's the same question of whether you're satisfied with abstracting away the things that make writing music/software interesting to us (with music the answer's a lot more obvious since the point of writing music has always just been... to write music).

Sure, but trying to strip React of its virtual DOM is just a fundamental architectural mismatch; you can't have your cake and eat it (coarse-grained vs. fine-grained reactivity, fully dynamic arbitrary JSX vs. a templating language etc.). The point I'm trying to make with SolidJS is that it manages to keep JSX by intentionally swapping to signals and introducing primitives and control flow components to scope the compiler, whereas this forces the developer to hold all of this complexity in their heads and write in a specific convoluted way. It's like shipping TypeScript without type declarations and pitching knowing your types in your head as a feature lol.

In the first place, I imagine the subset of React code that’s static enough to compile into direct DOM mutations is so trivial that it’s not a useful optimization target.

Not sure what this project is for... the only way to statically compile JSX into direct DOM mutations is to either castrate React's dynamic runtime flexibility and closure model, or break its semantics like SolidJS does (in this case worse because the lack of templating/syntax constraints just shifts the burden from the compiler to the developer).

Surprised to see Dreamweaver still on Adobe's website; I remember being taught website design with it during computer class back in the late 2000s, definitely a completely different paradigm to the modern web.