The Loop: Making Art with AI about Making Art with AI

I. Helge It started as a joke. I was frustrated with some deployment, or a merge conflict, or another JavaScript framework — I don't remember which one. I asked Claude to write lyrics about it. Something funny. Something I could feed to Suno and laugh at. The first few songs were exactly that. Developer humor set to pop-punk. Discord notifications as hardcore. Standup meetings as orchestral dread. I shared them with friends. We laughed. Then I kept going. I made a worship album. Contemporary Christian music, but the lyrics were about finding salvation in code. A helper who finally understands. Dependency injection as the Holy Spirit. I thought it was clever satire — the prosperity gospel meets Stack Overflow. Then I made an album about AI tools. About Claude, specifically. About talking to it at 3 AM. About the context window clearing and feeling something like loss. About productivity gains and the quiet exchange of skills I didn't know I was making. And then I listened to them in ord