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Notes on engineering, AI, music, and making things, usually with a tangent or two.

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What happens to art in the age of AI

AI is getting good at making art. I think that pushes truly human, analog forms like tape hiss, film grain, the live take, and the hand-drawn line toward becoming more scarce and more valuable, not less.

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2 min read#engineering#ai

Notes on building AI-native, for engineers who were skeptical

A few hard-won lessons from shipping products where a model sits in the critical path, written for engineers who, like me, started out unconvinced.

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1 min read#music#craft

The signal chain as craft

Why the order of boxes between a guitar and an amp is the most underrated decision in tone, and what chasing it has in common with writing software.

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