Claude Code and @suno have more in common than you might think: "It's fun to build things, and it's fun to use what you build." AI lets people be creative in almost any domain, from coding to making music. Today on Training Data, @MikeyShulman shares his thesis for why generative AI is the newest form of active entertainment (the next 'gaming'), music as a cultural phenomenon vs creative expression platform, and more. My favorite part was Mikey's explanation of why Suno learns music theory implicitly vs explicitly: "In Western music, there are 12 tones. If you tell the model there are 12 tones, it will only ever produce those 12 tones. You will be forever limited. And if you tell the model there's 200 instruments, those are the only sounds that you'll ever be able to make." The more you constrain a model with what humans already know, the less capable it becomes. By treating everything as pure sound, Suno built what Mikey calls a totally generalized "music-making machine." Such is the power of neural nets.