A workable division of labor follows from the strengths and limits already established. The AI tool takes the parts that benefit from speed and breadth: producing many candidate ideas, generating variations on a theme, filling in accompaniment or texture, and handling style-consistent material at a fixed length. The human keeps the parts that require intent and judgment: deciding what the piece is for, setting the overall shape and emotional direction, choosing among candidates, editing and combining results, and making the final call on what stays. The diagram shows this as a two-column split, with the boundary drawn at the point where a task stops being about plausible material and starts being about a specific goal.
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Start with the two columns as they are. The left side is what the tool does well: generating many candidate ideas, producing variations, filling in accompaniment, matching a style at a fixed length. The right side is what needs a person: deciding what the piece is for, setting its shape and emotional direction, choosing among candidates, editing, and making the final call. Now try moving a card. Drag 'make the final call' to the left, and the label tells you it does not fit, because that task needs intent, not plausible material. Drag 'produce variations' to the right, and the label notes it is possible but wastes the tool's speed. The boundary line marks the real dividing point: on one side, producing plausible material; on the other, pursuing a specific goal.
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