NickC25

but then the comments would chastise me for that.

Who gives a shit? You use AI to vibecode a tool you use to make music...cool, if it works for you and you make cool music with it, good. Honestly, nobody would even know, unless you disclosed it.

A filter is a filter is a filter. If you built one by writing all the code yourself, great. If a LLM generates the code for a filter, and you use it in your tracks, cool, it's likely nobody could even tell.

Make music for yourself my friend. Nobody will care how its made if it's cool music.

I find my niche VSTs by being active in music production circles, as well as actively making (shitty) music.

I browse KVR, Gearslutz, Synthtopia, etc.. and if something catches my interest, i investigate.

When I make (awful noise) music, if I have a need for a type of effect or instrument, I will look one up, and try it out if it suits what I'm trying to do.

I don't rely on instagram.

If you need Instagram ads to tell you which VSTs to buy, you haven't:

1. spent enough time on KVR or Gearslutz, discussing with other musicians, hobbyists, plugin nerds and developers who are building and battle testing these plugins.

2. spent enough time making music....which is why you spend money on VSTs to begin with.

3. spent time learning to build your own plugins or VCV Rack modules.

4. watched YT videos made by your favorite producers telling you which ones they use, so you can get it, and then use it to make music. the idea is "hey if its good enough for (insert artists here), it's good enough for me". You wouldn't buy a plugin just to have it, especially when some of these plugins cost hundreds of dollars - you'd buy it to use it.

If you need to use instagram to tell you where concerts are, fine. But as a heads up, Youtube does this too! And it does so in a way that directly supports the artist. AFAIK Instagram doesn't pay artists for their content.

You're forgetting some things which are quite sad and reflective of our society:

The CEO will not be personally affected at all. He'll still have hundreds of billions in the bank.

The CEO will be paraded in front of congress who will then proceed to ask him softball questions carefully prepared by a team of lobbyists and Meta lawyers. The CEO will answer like a robot.

Senators and congressmen will not push back on the CEO's answers even though everyone in the room knows said answers are deliberate obfuscation and dishonest wordsmithing at best.

The CEO will be praised by the Senate Minority Leader simply because the CEO is from the Senator's district.

The same Senator will highlight all the good work the CEO does to help the Israeli military. (this is not antisemitism, for the record. Senate Minority Leader Schumer has constantly said his main job is to protect Israel's interests).

The company's shares will increase, and everyone will praise the company and its CEO. Every major podcast, even those run by centrists and capitalist leftists, will praise the CEO's ability as someone who is incredible at delivering amazing returns.

Shareholders will allow the company to operate as normal, because they are making money.

The cycle repeats itself.

(No we don't know if it was AI that made the mistake...)

Yes we do, but not the AI that you're thinking of.

That AI that did it stands for Actual Idiots.

Skimmed through this hoping it was some sort of joke, and there was a genuine "gotcha" moment before diving into the stuff professional analysts spend lots of time examining.

Turns out, the joke was on me. I got pictures of fucking geese.

Big chess fan here.

This is great!

what consequences might that have?

All depends on who is holding the bag, and how big the bag is.

He’d be first in line for a government handout.

And he'd take a good chunk of that money for himself, and a good amount of that to also "donate" to a foreign, nuclear-armed, hostile country's "defense" force. But don't you dare question him.

How utterly predictable.

FOMO at its best, fuck their personalities and development and having happy childhood as base layer of personality for rest of their lives, its grades at all costs!

It's about making sure kids can read. It's about making sure our tax dollars are spent on making the next generation of people into functional adults.

I don't want the country spending billions on an education system that churns out adults who are genuinely illiterate and can't write.

Worse yet, these people can vote.

And are completely susceptible to disinformation/misinformation campaigns.

fellow Fairfield County native here. Likely around the same age as you. I went to a great public school (I was a terrible student, crippling ADHD but that's another story for another day) in the southern half of the county. I'll let you guess which one. Also spent a few years in another of the top districts (west of the capital, again, easy to guess ;P) before making the move south.

It's NOT the schools. They are well funded and as you say, pretty helpless because teachers, even younger ones, just aren't able to deal with kids whose parents shoved a smartphone into their hands at age 3.

It's NOT the parents - in order to keep up with the jonses in those towns, you have to work like a dog and most likely, both parents are in high stress demanding environments in order to make enough to live there. I was fortunate that my dad did quite well for our family, but there's no way I could raise a kid in that environment.

It's the fucking devices, and the drive to put tech everywhere in the classroom. When I was a kid we had a single Mac in the classroom (besides the teacher's computer), mainly to dick around with Oregon Trail, Math Blaster, or some typing app. We wanted to play games? We went outside and played sports, or stayed inside and played games like scrabble or chess.

In high school we had to do genuine research 15-20+ page papers as early as Sophomore year. There was zero Wikipedia, much less ChatGPT or Claude.

Of course, a book, which requires attention, effort, and has no distractions, is not going to capture the attention and imagination of someone who has had the world and all of its distractions at their fingertips since they gained consciousness, and weren't made to socialize without devices.

And no, we cannot allow people to pass to the next grade without mastering the skills required of their current grade. This needs to be completely iron clad and not up for debate. I was nearly held back 3-4 times. I am an idiot. I was miles ahead of where elementary school and middle school kids are today. I don't care if a wealthy Ivy grad and his management consultant wife donate a bunch of money to make sure their kid can pass - if their kid can't read or write, their kid can't pass.

or 4, or 5, or whatever makes Elon more money than he knows what to do with.

Something here stinks....and I'm not sure what it is. But my god, the corruption here is staggering.

Moral of the story: if the interview feels wrong, email them and decline going forward right away. Give yourself the satisfaction of consciously dodging a bullet.

I wished I had known this earlier in my life.

I once interviewed at a healthcare startup ran by the brother of someone very closely related to the current occupant of the White House. This was 3 weeks after I graduated college.

I went through the first round, no problem. 2nd round, it was Halloween, and a nurse dressed up as a cow (spotted makeup and all) comes into the room and asks me to role play a situation where I have to deny life-saving insurance claims to a cancer patient who's been given a life threatening diagnosis.

Halfway through the exercise I asked the interviewer - "so, this is an insurance company, and the insured has been paying premiums for a while, probably 10s of thousands of dollars, and they have what is otherwise effectively a terminal diagnosis...and you're asking me to deny this person their only chance at survival?". I was given the response of "that's how insurance works"

Sad.

I believe this thinking can be abstracted to software design via AI in general. If you are thoroughly prepared, and keep things simple, it's incredible what help Claude or GPT can be.

I have Claude basically doing all the coding for me for a simple game I am making. However I don't consider this vibe coding. I spent several hours thinking out the design on a piece of paper, playtesting it in person. I came up with a list of potential mechanical issues within the game, and asked Claude to come up with more. It found more issues, and we solved them all together. Once the game was mechanically sound and edgecases were solved for, it built an MVP. I ran the program, and found more bugs. I came up with my own solutions, and Claude did the same, and we figured out which were best to implement. Claude then wrote more code, and raised issues when they came up, and we worked through them together. I'm incredibly happy with how its turned out so far.

Good on 'em, but autonomous cars are on their way and it might displace the union.

In my city, Zoox are already rolling out driverless taxi services, and the vehicles they are using are completely autonomous.

Meh, I disagree.

I get my GF pasta from a local italian food importer. the quality of the pasta is out of this world. i've done blind tasting tests with said importer and he couldn't tell the difference between GF and non GF.

there are crappy brands out there for sure and definitely some GF products are bad. some aren't.

and I'm sick and tired of American vultures buying up everything in Europe Just Because They Can.

Here in America, we're also sick and tired of vultures buying up everything just because they can.

I don't know - my grandmother (father's mom) was fully left handed. My dad writes left handed but everything else right handed.

I am left handed for fine motor skills (writing, fork/knife) but throw righty and play single handed sports with my right (except for table tennis which i can do either hand at a good level). I can play two handed sports (hockey, lacrosse, golf) pretty much with either hand with little issue. Right footed, but can kick with my left pretty confidently.

The reason these CEOs go to NYC is because that is where the talent and economic clustering is: if these high-net-worth individuals could get the talent they need to run their firms in Miami and Austin, they would have done so already. They have tried and they have failed up until this point.

This needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

I am from NYC and live in Miami.

I have seen hedge funds try and fail to bring talent down here, and paying talent through the nose to convince them. It has failed, because 1. local private schools won't let Ken Griffin buy his way to the front of the line; and 2. there's no local talent pipelines to recruit from that come even remotely close to what is found in the Northeast, or in the Bay Area.

UM pales in comparison to the fact that almost every Ivy League school is within a 3 hour drive of NYC, not counting other strong school (NYU, NEASC colleges, MIT, etc). FIU or UF isn't even in the same stratosphere.

Taxes pay for the establishment of a strong educational foundation so that even local public schools can send kids to Ivies or top colleges. Taxes pay to keep that going.

What does it say for mixed-handed folks like myself (different skillsets per hand - in other words, throw and write with different hands)? What about cross-dominance (different body parts differ on dominant side - in other words, a right-handed person being left-foot dominant)?

I've been told that it's effectively a mental illness if discovered during childhood (as is ambidexterity). Yet I can't help but think that it is not a mental illness, but rather something else.

This is being disingenuous. Maybe not deliberately so, but still.

There's a difference between a few people getting together and petitioning the government for redress; versus, a multitrillion dollar corporation (that pays little to no tax, and is the recipient of very generous government contracts) buying its way to the front of the line and whining until it gets its way.

Seriously. Instead of using that land to build a $250 million penthouse Ken Griffin only spends 10 days a year in, they could probably build enough housing for 500+ middle class families.

He's also a non-white immigrant. The amount of brown skinned nutjobs try to cosplay as white so they'll be accepted as "one of the good ones" is too high.

Hey brown or yellow immigrants - the conservatives will gladly accept your vote, but the second you walk away they won't even refer to you by name in conversation, they'll refer you to with every slur in the book. I grew up with some very far-right types who had money...nice to "the help" in person, but soon as earshot is out of range, you hear the n-word like it's as common as the word "the". And just because you're not black, doesn't mean they don't hate you too. I've heard some horrid things said to Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Pakistanis, etc.

Anyone remember the young republicans club at Florida International University scandal? Lots of young male Cuban immigrants (or kids of immigrants) desperate to be seen as white. Problem is, you pull any one of those kids out of Dade county, they'll be called a Mexican and told to go make tacos.

Garry's actions on social media remind me of those kids, albeit someone with a bit more money, and a little less perspective on things.

I like the way you think. But most wouldn't agree, they believe a company should have the right to influence government.

Citizens can absolutely do that.

Corporations might be "people" but they aren't citizens. Especially if they participate in shenanigans designed to "minimize" their tax exposure that involve shell corporations in other countries.

break. up. Amazon.

break up Apple, Meta, MSFT, etc... while we're at it.

Or, keep it simpler - if a company passes a market cap of 1 trillion dollars, they must forgo lobbying and "government relations". if you're worth a trillion dollars or more, you don't need the government to hold your hand.

It's going to get worse. What people should really understand that there's, so far, only one product for AI and that is labor displacement and wage suppression when we already have historically low savings rate (ie a buffer) [2] and an affordability crisis that is also only going to get worse. How do we have a functioning economy if nobody has any money?

Not only that, wages have stagnated for a few decades, interest rates have been through the floor so nobody can make any money in savings, inflation through the roof, people with billions aren't paying taxes....

We don't have a functioning economy. Our stock market is being kept afloat by AI CAPEX. We have useless politicans afraid of asking trillionaire corporations and centibillionaires to pay their fair share. This country is dying.