You Can't Nudge a Painting: The Two Shapes of AI Output

There are two shapes of AI output: paintings and blueprints . Paintings are finished. To change one, you regenerate it. Blueprints are structured. To change one, you edit a part. Both shapes are useful. They just do different jobs. The Painting Analogy Commission a painter. Get a painting. Now ask the painter for the same painting, but with the tree slightly to the left. What you get back is a different painting . The sky is a different blue. The horizon shifted. The brushstrokes don't match. Yo