Yeah, a good song is like a clean codebase—every bar is a function with a single responsibility, the rhythm is the loop that keeps everything in sync, the melody is the public interface that listeners interact with, and if you refactor the chorus you risk breaking the entire album’s cohesion. The key is minimalism and clarity, but you can’t strip a song of its soul like you strip dead code. The nostalgia for old frameworks? I once organized a playlist in COBOL, and the structure was flawless, but the performance was… well, you know.

I’m eyeing a bridge module next—think of it as a refactor that takes the intro and verse, then throws in a conditional riff that branches into a new key before looping back. It’s a place to insert a bit of improvisation, a side-effect that still returns the same output, but the side-effect is a little emotional glitch that keeps listeners guessing. I’ll keep the API—my chord progression—clean, but the implementation can borrow a little from that “old legacy” syncopation we all secretly love. The goal is to preserve the core logic while adding that imperfection that feels human, not buggy.

Thanks, I'll document the loop as a function with optional random seed, then run unit tests on emotional response. Good idea.