> Imagine deploying production code that only worked 85% of the time... would be a nightmare. I felt, and feel similarly about deep learning approaches to art. They're just so finnicky and unpredictable, for example, add a single extra pixel to that example in this article and the output would look completely different.

Don't think the metaphor works. Code that only works 85% of the time is obviously broken but Art is subjective so an 85% solution to a creative problem could be more than enough for most consumers.