I think we are the stage of the "AI Bubble" that is equivalent to saying it is 1997, 18% of U.S. households have internet access. Obviously, the internet is not working out or 90%+ of households would have internet access if it was going to be as big of deal as some claim.
I work at a place that is doing nothing like this and it seems obvious to me we are going to get put out of business in the long run. This is just adding a power law on top of a power law. Winner winner take all. What I currently do will be done by software engineers and agents in 10 years or less. Gemini is already much smarter than I am. I am going to end up at a factory or Walmart if I can get in.
The "AI bubble" is a mass delusion of people in denial of this reality. There is no bubble. The market has just priced all this forward as it should. There is a domino effect of automation that hasn't happened yet because your company still has to interface with stupid companies like mine that are betting on the hand loom. Just have to wait for us to bleed out and then most people will never get hired for white collar work again.
It amuses me when someone says who is going to want the factory jobs in the US if we reshore production? Me and all the other very average people who get displaced out of white collar work and don't want to be homeless is who.
"More valuable" work is just 2026 managerial class speak for "place holder until the agent can take over the task".
"linux musician" once meant trying to get this audio program to compile that would never work because I am not a unix system admin.
I didn't realize Dave Phillips had passed away. I remember he had an incredible page of audio software links but all stuff I almost never got to make any sound. Sometimes I would even blow up my whole system trying to get something to work and have to reinstall the whole operating system.
Seeing how far we have come with this site is just incredible.
I just don't think the economics of this work. Software synths are just such cutthroat competition that there is no profit margin.
I have a Pittsburgh Modular TAIGA that cost $800. How much am I willing to pay for a software synth doing analog modeling? Basically nothing.
To get everyone a piece of the pie to make it worth it for this, it would cost the end user so much for the pie that no one would bother.
My experience with music collaboration is that the technical challenges have been minimal for a long time now. The challenges of collaboration are social and being on the same page musically. Even in the 90s, it wasn't hard to find people to make rock music with locally. The problem was always what was meant by "rock music" to begin with.
It is exactly the opposite problem of video games. It would be like the economics of video games if the goal was to team up to play video games no one else was playing.
I think this would only work if every musician's goal was to be Taylor Swift.
It is easy to forget though that the vast majority of people have no idea what is being talked about on this forum.
What percentage of students who graduated in 2025 have no idea what machine learning is?
Forget Attention Is All You Need and transformers. What percentage can't define machine learning?
What percentage have no idea what the question even means? A highly non-trivial percentage.
ChatGPT prompting 101 would obviously be stupid but there is more than enough material to do a fantastic AI 101 class.
An AI 101 class taught the way I would want to see it taught would be only a little bit about AI, but far more about philosophy, evolutionary history, and ethics.
You need exposure to philosophical ideas because you need words to be able to think about and describe the similarities and differences between computed language output and a lived experience. You need evolutionary biology to understand that AI is not going to catch up to a billion years of evolutionary progress in the next 6 months. You need ethics because AI is an invitation to ruin yourself through cheating, bullshitting your responsibilities, and generally failing to consider that improving yourself takes work.
But none of that actually requires using AI, which is what makes me suspicious that I would not see eye to eye with Purdue.
What I suspect they're thinking is "every employer wants to hire AI-human centaur employees, so we better make sure are students are the best AI-human hybrids they can be because otherwise there will be no employers who would want them"
I work at a place that is doing nothing like this and it seems obvious to me we are going to get put out of business in the long run. This is just adding a power law on top of a power law. Winner winner take all. What I currently do will be done by software engineers and agents in 10 years or less. Gemini is already much smarter than I am. I am going to end up at a factory or Walmart if I can get in.
The "AI bubble" is a mass delusion of people in denial of this reality. There is no bubble. The market has just priced all this forward as it should. There is a domino effect of automation that hasn't happened yet because your company still has to interface with stupid companies like mine that are betting on the hand loom. Just have to wait for us to bleed out and then most people will never get hired for white collar work again.
It amuses me when someone says who is going to want the factory jobs in the US if we reshore production? Me and all the other very average people who get displaced out of white collar work and don't want to be homeless is who.
"More valuable" work is just 2026 managerial class speak for "place holder until the agent can take over the task".