WARNING. Don’t.
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i thought it was tech acronym. the ecosia auto ai said it can’t assist with that request. good and jeez.
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Yeah, sorry - thought the acronym and Grok’s core use case as a generator was well known.
That’s the kind of search that might get the feds calling to your door. Only these days it’d probably be to offer a job.
The evangelists want everyone to go off into sci-fi fantasy land on this, meanwhile the actually existing reality of the tech.
But this guy’s vision is so bleak even as this goes, it’s almost funny if he didn’t actually exercise power and influence. Ideal world: spend your days confiding all your hopes and dreams in the computer and for leisure time friends will want to log on and take part in your personal wish fulfillment fantasy. I mean … who wouldn’t want that?
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i was minutes away from watching the rehearsal when i saw this.
Unfortunately, I had the exact opposite happen. They refused to cancel my subscription unless I paid the remainder of the 1 year plan. The only offered to pause my subscription for 3 months. The good news at the time was that my concern was a false alarm, but I’ve never forgotten that.
We’ve ended up subscribing again and my complaint is the lack of an option for turning off auto-renew. They don’t allow it. You have to wait until 10 days before the subscription is set to renew, in order to cancel. If you try before then, you have to pay them more money.
They make great tools, so I don’t understand all the need for making the subscription so unfriendly. We’re actually paying customers (or we were), so why the unnecessary difficulty when other people already download the full products for free. Anyway, that’s my hate relationship with them.
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That sucks, I must have misremembered. It says in CA they charge a cancellation fee that’s 30% of the annual total, so that must be what happened.
They could just start to listen to users and fill the op-xy up with good stuff. Even if drum synth might come. Look at what people do with the m-vave fm1. And it is 60 bucks. If op-xy is not even trying to push out more stuff then it will not stand any chance.
I personally have lots of hardware around me capable hardware but lots of it is shut down to a tiny fraction if what it could do. This is an economical nightmare.
If I want to hack the device its on me but open those machines up or claude will do it. Its just nonsense to build a new machine for every sungle purpose that one machine you already have could do also.
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I was hearing that a lot for a very long time. Only stopped hearing it because everyone switched to either Capture One or DXO 
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What we see now is with small developers - can now bring apps to their tools, the example is the Track 8 here , or the Twisted Electron hardware, which now brings its own editor.
The Track8 ios app is essentially the hardware. You can prototype your ideas with these apps, or have an emulator to chain test its functions, run the code on the hardware - use an mcp server for testing the functions. You can do serious testing now with these tools.
Possibly even iron out more bugs before you ship - because you have the abstraction layer now opened up. You can write your logs, your log interpreter, dial every knob and button combination you can come up with.
If you are serious - the stuff will get better. This is also what we have seen with the Track8 , he fixed stuff in hours. (Dont know if its vibe coded or not -but i would assume that everyone adapts now.) The vibe aspect is only vibe for people dont knowing shit. Somone who sits there and designed an instrument from the ground up has some sort of endurance.
I even think its a very clever business move - attract people with your relativly cheap app - to get them invested in the workflow- then sell them the honey.
Abstratction layers are fine for me. Dont want to write out pi.
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This is simplistic, at best.
My understanding of a mobile phone is limited, right? I rely on the tech being designed, built, the software coded, by other people. It’s “out of my hands”. It’s a ‘black-box’ to me, I don’t know or care to know how every bit works.
Any here drive a car? Or ever been driven anywhere in a car? I have.
Did I build and design that car by myself? Refine the crude oil by myself?
Much, in modern society, is “out of our hands”… and thank fuck, too - that’s what allows us to help each other and contribute in specialized ways.
What is that track 8 you’re talking about? My search brings up an ios app from 2012…
Disrespectful is in my opinion the best term to describe many usages of AI nowadays. Disrespectful to manufacturers like you, to (open source) software developers, to music creators, writers, actors, artists, people’s environments and to nature in general, as resources used for AI data centers are already in the 1 to 3% range of global energy usage while a climate crisis is going on.
But hey, we can have a compressor now on Syntakt, it’s all that matters right?
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Well , will it stop when there isnt such a compressor ? It would be good if nobody picks a flight, which causes co2 emission. Or if companys went for strictly home office policy to save energy.
But that is not what is happening. The problem isnt that compressor on a micro controller device. Its the growth economy. You cant reduce that to a singular event.
I had to throw away a perfectly working multichannel audio interface because the company didnt wrote a new driver for windows 7. It only worked up untill windows XP. 500 Bucks at that time - thrown away with cables.
I was forced to upgrade because otherwise the system wasnt save to use on the internet. Now the landscape is different.
How should humanity survive if we dont cooperate? What is cooperation? Sharing ideas. If everthing is only valued with the involved business model, we end up in a growth economy which destroys the planet.
And i want small developers to succeed, also i want Elektron to survive -that is not the question. The question is the monopolys we see surfacing, and how out of control that has become.
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Perhaps, or perhaps look at it how we look at sampling records: the original work has inspired someone else to use the work as a basis.
I’ll elaborate a bit, using a LLM might mean that someone without the technical knowledge to code but with some ideas can add features to an existing product.
Obviously there are degrees of nuance here, just like with sampling.
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When everything has been uploaded into the same pool and everyone starts drinking from the same source, where does differentiation come from? Is UI/UX going to cut it? That’s the title of this thread in my understanding. People building totally new things less and less, because they see no point, and operating on whatever has been uploaded into the AI mass because it is what everyone uses and nothing will rival it in cost/efficiency.
Are creative people or engineers who build ‘from the ground up’ going to continue to be motivated to do so when they know someone will just upload their work, without the understanding of intent, into said pool and attempt to reverse engineer clones? Because I think it would be rather demoralizing. Likewise for our younger generations, are they going to be bothered learning through failure when they can just go to the same pool everyone else is using?
Why are people attempting to reverse engineer firmware omitting the fact that the LLM itself wouldn’t abide by the request in its original form? We got to the point of CFW because of layers of brute forcing and careful sidestepping of language to fulfill a request that wouldn’t have otherwise been fulfilled. Let’s not play stupid.
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There never was any “totally new things”. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, the vast majority of human works are incremental improvements and innovations, taking other ideas, mashing them up and doing a little more with it. Very occasionally there’ll be a proper invention and a big leap forward, but even then it’s still built on foundations laid by others.
AI and digital stuff just makes the whole process faster and more obvious, so it feels more shocking.
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It’s a question of whether or not we want to preserve the productive struggle as we know it. Yes, cloning has always existed, in the greater examples, it is something that has historically taken effort. When you shrink the time of effort I would ask myself if the calculus for building something ambitious changes. From the point of view of business (different topic) that time also correlates to the concept of a head start.
I don’t look at this purely from the negative point of view. There is always a bright side, in this case in the form of adaptability/consequences that will come after.
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