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FYI -- there's no such thing as a "tactical" nuke. A nuclear bomb is a nuclear bomb.

Oh, that's the best place for souls to bond.

Can people please not post links with vague titles like this? I had to click through and read half the article to even figure out what this was about, and I wasn’t interested.

Why does the term “spiritual” bother you so much? Perhaps interrogate that.

Scientific studies grasping for explanations to spiritual things always give me a smile. This is the way. It’s about opening up to the energetic experience being conveyed through the medium (art, music, whatever). Has nothing to do with individual variations in biology or physiology.

Google has the time, money, TPUs, and ability to siphon talent. It'll be an unsexy slog to the top, but they'll get there eventually.

I don't mean to be cynical, but I read this move as: OpenAI scared, no way to make money with similar product, so acqui-hire the creator to keep him busy.

I'd love to be wrong, but the blog post sounds like all the standard promises were made, and that's usually how these things go.

Love the idea, discussed doing something similar with a friend around the late 2000s but never did.

Hate to say it, but the concept needs to be gamified and turned into an app. This is the only way you’re gonna get the average citizen today to engage. Need to implement viral loops and gamification to even get peoples’ attention on something like this, much less hold it.

It looks nice but nothing groundbreaking. If you hadn’t told me Jony Ive did it, I wouldn’t have ever known or thought it was unique.

If my 12-year-old painted that, I would call a priest for an exorcism.

Absolutely not.

This is great. I just need: easy way to track sets/reps, ability to save specific workouts, and charts would be fantastic. I also find the little animations some apps provide to be a helpful reference for form, but that's a nice-to-have.

LOL. Is this working from a prompt to make up a fictitious sin? Because if what it's telling me is true...

Someone build an LLM confessional site where a human user acts as the priest and an LLM joins the chat to confess its sins.

Seems odd to me that there would be one short, powerful jet of a natural explanation. Why hasn’t this thing been outgassing like crazy the whole time?

At last, they've come for Two Minute Papers.

I also use AI to do discrete, well-defined tasks so I can keep an eye on things before they go astray.

But I thought there are lots of agentic systems that loop back and ask for approval every few steps, or after every agent does its piece. Is that not the case?

Yeah, I think this would work well generally, not just for kids. And ADHD folks in particular.

• I didn't say there's a line between "tech people" and "art people". Why would there be?

• We're having this discussion because people are trying to equate an auto-amalgamation/auto-generation machine with the artistic process, and in doing so, redefining what "art" means.

• Yes, you can "be creative" with AI, but don't fool yourself-- you're not creating art. I don't call myself a chef because I heated up a microwave dinner.

Skill is nature's way of gatekeeping.

If you're too lazy to put effort into learning how to create an art so you can adequately express yourself, why should some technology do all the work for you, and why should anyone want to hear what "you" (ie: the machine) have to say?

This is exactly how we end up with endless slop, which doesn't provide a unique perspective, just a homogenized regurgitation of inputs.

People love to be snobs about pop music, but it's music.

A particular piece of art isn't "soulless" just because it didn't move you. There were still plenty of humans involved in making it, who made specific artistic decisions. In pop music, the creative decisions are often driven by a desire to be as broadly appealing as possible. That's not a good or bad thing unless you judge it as such. It's still art.

This is similar to what I do. There are all kinds of useful ways to incorporate AI into the music production process. It should be treated like a collaborative partner, or any other tool/plugin.

It shouldn't be a magic button that does everything for you, removing the human element. A human consciously making decisions with intent, informed by life experience, to share a particular perspective, is what makes art art.

The innovator's dilemma is real. IMO none of the big DAWs are well-positioned to capitalize on AI, but that doesn't mean they couldn't.

I'd argue music generation is different from image or code generation. It's closer to being purely art. Take image generation for example. Most of the disruption is coming from competition with graphic design, marketing, creative/production processes, etc. The art world isn't up in arms about AI "art" competing with human art.

Suno is moving toward becoming a browser-based DAW that happens to use AI. There are already more capable and established DAWs, and I see no reason they can't implement AI into their workflows-- in a more precise manner, where it's actually useful, instead of wholesale as a gimmick. Many are already doing this. So I don't understand where Suno is going with any of this.

It either needs to be: 1. So easy anyone can press a button and magically get exactly what they want with perfect accuracy and quality. 2. So robust and powerful it enables new kinds of music production and super-charges human producers.

This is neither. And I don't buy Suno's argument that they're solving a real problem here. Creative people don't hate the process of creating art-- it's the process itself and the personal expression that make it worthwhile. And listeners/consumers can tell the difference between art created with intent and soul, and a pale imitation of that.

What a dystopian and depressing outlook on the valuation and enjoyment of art. Truly hope you're an anomaly.

Side note, but does anyone else have this thought process when faced with yearly subscription vs lifetime purchase?

1. If I buy a subscription and end up not using it, I've wasted money. 2. If I buy a subscription and end up using it, that means I should have just bought the lifetime purchase. So now I've wasted money. 3. If I buy a lifetime purchase and end up not using it, I've wasted money. 4. I don't want to waste money. I'll find a free alternative or build my own. 5. Exit app store, no sub or purchase made.

Talk about loss aversion...

A project management layer is a huge missing piece in AI coding right now. Proper scoping, documentation, management, etc is essential to getting good results. The people who are having the most success with “vibe coding” have figured this out, but it should really be incorporated into the process.

Oh, to be new to Zen again. That lovely honeymoon phase. Give it a few weeks/months. Bugs, random UI changes, odd development priorities. I wanted to love it, I really did.

Related, just as a heads up. I've been using this for 100% local offline transcription for a while, works well: https://github.com/pluja/whishper

Anecdotal, but Grok seems to have just introduced pretty restrictive rate limits. They’re now giving free users access to Grok 4 with a low limit and then making it difficult to manually switch to Grok 3 and continue. Will only allow a few more requests before pushing an upgrade to paid plans. Just started happening to me last night.