🎨 I built an open source tool that generates unique AI images without prompting. Each image is unrepeatable and anchored to the moment it was created. Is the system itself art? You decide. 🔗 GitHub Repository: The Serendipity Engine uses “Constrained Serendipity” - a system that creates AI-generated images bounded by carefully curated guardrails. Instead of spending 20 minutes crafting the perfect prompt, you answer one random question, the system rolls five random dimensions (mood, environment, concept, era, style), adds temporal anchoring (current day, season, time), and throws in a fortune cookie for good measure. Claude Haiku generates the detailed prompt, Amazon Nova Canvas creates the image. Every generation is unique. You can never recreate the same image twice. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - 16 images in 10 minutes, no prompts 0:19 - The Problem: Boring backgrounds vs. beautiful AI art 0:51 - What is Constrained Serendipity? 1:36 - Demo: Running the Serendipity Engine 1:54 - The User Question & Random Dimensions 3:10 - The Reveal (and surprise!) 3:24 - How it Works: The Complete System 4:03 - The Fortune Cookie Element 5:20 - Is This Art? The Core Question 5:50 - The System as Art (Sol LeWitt, Brian Eno) 7:39 - Practical Uses & Value 8:00 - Open Source on GitHub 8:18 - Your Turn: Which Image Do You Like? 🛠️ TECHNICAL STACK - Python + CLI tool - AWS Bedrock (Claude Haiku 4.5 + Amazon Nova Canvas) - Five curated dimensions spanning 70+ million combinations - Temporal anchoring (date, season, time of day) - Fortune cookie randomness - Full HD output (1920x1088) 💭 THE ART QUESTION I'm not arguing every image is a masterpiece. I'm arguing the SYSTEM itself is the artwork - a conceptual piece about constrained randomness, temporal anchoring, and surrendering control. The images are artifacts of experiencing the artwork, like documentation of a performance. The art is in designing the possibility space. 📚 MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO - Sol LeWitt (instruction-based art) - Brian Eno (generative music) - Concept of Constrained Serendipity 💬 LET'S DISCUSS Is the Serendipity Engine art? Not the images - the SYSTEM itself? Which of the 16 images shown do you like best? Comment with a number (1-16) and why! 🔗 FIND ME - Bluesky: @ - Mastodon: @glez_de - LinkedIn: constantingonzalez - Blog: 📌 USE CASES - Video call backgrounds (my original motivation!) - Blog post images - Desktop & mobile wallpapers - Social media graphics - Greeting cards - Any project that needs unique, inspiring visuals 🎯 REQUIREMENTS - AWS Account (with Bedrock access) - Access to Claude Haiku 4.5 and Nova Canvas models - Python + - That's it! Whether this is art or engineering or somewhere in between, I've had more fun building and using this than anything I've created in years. That might be the whole point. #AI #Art #GenerativeAI #Claude #AWS #Bedrock #OpenSource #ConstrainedSerendipity #NoPrompts #ConceptualArt #Python #SerendipityEngine