Training AI to Paint with Code (RLing Qwen to paint with code)
Case study by **Surya Narreddi** (with **Cameron Franz** and **Alex Wang**) on his personal website, dated **March 2026** (day unspecified; ~1,500 words), titled *Training AI to Paint with Code*. The authors train a language model (**Qwen 3.5 35B**) via reinforcement learning (**GRPO**) to produce watercolor paintings as **p5.brush** JavaScript code, with the code itself serving as the editable artifact. The underlying question: how to do RL when the reward — aesthetic — is not verifiable.
Surya Narreddi — designer et développeur · auteur du projet (site personnel) ; collaborateurs Cameron Franz (infrastructure d'entraînement) et Alex Wang.