From commit messages to my dad's pictures

We met up, my friend showed me his tool and said, look, it can write a commit message from what you've changed in the code. Until then you had to sum up your work in one sentence yourself, sometimes after a good deal of thought, and here was the computer suggesting something that made sense. A small thing, but back then it was a wow moment for me.

Later my dad, fascinated, started playing with AI image generation himself and showing me what came out: pictures that looked like Rembrandt, in half-darkness, with light shining through the ears. He asked how a machine could possibly paint something like that, and it was hard to answer in two sentences, especially as I was surprised myself.