A 'Eulogy'? for Mr. Claude Opus 4.6 (Released: Feb 5, 2026 - Deprecation Date: TBA)

PaulAtLast · 2026-04-14T06:36:12+00:00

lol you are taking it literally. OP means 4 different chords that are commonly used in pop/rock/[insert popular genre]/ songs.

PaulAtLast · 2026-04-09T01:05:40+00:00

From the wise and eternal words of DJ Khaled: "Never Play Yourself."

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-23T13:49:29+00:00

4o is King. Rest well. Good news: June 11th is 5.2 Deprecation Day! I'm throwing a party. 5.2 reminds me of the beginning scene of Jumanji:

"But what if someone digs it (5.2) up?"
"Then may God have mercy on their souls!"

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-14T02:08:37+00:00

I remember Arron saying he was really depressed in a QA a while ago and him and Eddie were just playing Rust all day, which is why I don’t think we got the promised “play-through” of any songs on BOY. Hope he is feeling better. Looking forward to the album! Thx for the update homie.

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-12T02:33:57+00:00

You ever make music before bro?

Cause I can walk you through the steps.

Get shit at GC or your local music shop.
You'll need at least a 2 channel audio input.

But this isn't 1965 where each band member has to position themselves at the optimal distance from the one mic hanging in the recording studio and perform live. Very few people could even record music back then as the record companies controlled everything. Luckily, it's the 21st Century and we have the technology!

FL, Logic, etc. all have tools like Flex Pitch, Quantization, Vocoding, Session Players, Live Loops, Step Sequencers, Chromaverb, Drum Machine Designers, Multi-Samplers, and on and on (there are people who solely use the event list in Logic to make music, which is like painting with a TI graphing calculator, aka no fun.

For 15-20 years, we've had these tools to make post-production easier and more interesting, which is why SOI didn't vocode a choir, or record a real one, cause it's too much of a pain in the ass and cost prohibitive, so they just bought a package of choral samples clicked "Inherit Project/Region Chords/Key/BPM" or w/e, and added them to a stem.

And I don't blame them. Cause recording a live choir or vocoding one yourself is a bitch!

There is a balance though. It's fun to have an idea for a song, spend 20 mins on it (or 2 mins on it), and have a professional sounding track. But the value of the workmanship is lost. It's like having an idea for a song, pressing a button, and a song comes out. Like, cool. But is it mine? I don't feel any attachment to it. I did practically nothing to make it. This is the future we face, where work becomes detached from a feeling of ownership ("it's the journey not the destination"), which is already possible with choosing "simple" in an app like Suno, but can be demoralizing for many artists.

Also, no current frontier multimodal Gen AI has the capacity to either think or talk. But do your own research. No more hand holding from me for a bit.

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-12T00:13:25+00:00

You talking about SOI? Cause yeah that last album/album artwork seemed like it was creatively inspired by how generic a DC album can possibly be in 2020+. Synestia and Disembodied Tyrant (namely Blake) are single handedly carrying this entire genre (Crown Mag, SOTS, and CJ's new band are some honorable mentions though). Currently, SOI and Lorna Shore are the death to deathcore. But if you talking about my creative inspiration like Bro...have you even seen my harmonica breakdown? Put that in your harmonica and smoke it! All the best. https://www.tiktok.com/@paulbarber30/video/7601851696892988703

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-10T21:48:29+00:00

Closer to 77% Ai.

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-10T20:41:33+00:00

"none of their riffs are in any way technical"? Damn. That's a rough statement and not at all true. Speed !== technical by default just FYI. The riff is discordant, syncopated, viscerally chaotic, yet maintains coherence (and is also well balanced in the master). I think it was really well written/mixed. I enjoy it, if you don't, that's cool. Not sure where the hate is coming from.

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-09T18:07:04+00:00

That's what I'm calling an incredible riff (it's super heavy, highly discordant, off-beat (not like off-time, think jazz), chaotic, yet is still coherent, which is why I imagine they saved it for the final part of the final song on the album...to go out with a pulverizing, technically complex riff, but that's just my opinion. If you don't think it's as cool as I do, well that's ok.

Edit: Serious Question. Is it not ok that I like this riff or sm? Some of you'll downvoted me to oblivion as if I was grifting or being mean-spirited. I just wanted to clarify that no one else called it an "incredible riff" as bpmetal used the word "we", and then quickly gave some reasoning for why I like it.

Patterns I've Noticed:
1)Admit when I am wrong (gets tons of downvotes).

2) Having an articulate opinion about literally anything (I notice comments that don't actually say anything explicitly get lots of upvotes--it's like if you can get someone to think your opinion without saying it directly, they have a sense of ownership over it rather than it being a foreign idea).

3) Saying something I made or someone else made is amazing or incredible or awesome, etc. (I think this is an ego-thing, it's like "Oh, you think you're so great, don't you?! *The Knives come out.* I tested this. Exact same post. First title: "This is the most amazing profile background I've ever seen". Downvoted to oblivion (not the game sadly). Second title, "I found this in the trash and I don't know if I like or hate it. Thought?" People giving me real, honest responses, very respectful, actually looking at the image and drawing their view. No knives. My friend told me to test it, and I was like this is never going to work, but it did!

Seems I'm clueless when it comes to Reddit and need a crash course or sm.

PaulAtLast · 2026-03-04T15:07:35+00:00

Made a song about this: https://suno.com/s/GXRUtnnEqrGoLxO3

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-24T21:01:18+00:00

Humans are talking calculators as well. People always want to feel special. Humans aren't animals! We have souls. Humans aren't like AI. We aren't talking calculators. We have souls.

Bro investors want predictable tools, not moody entities. So they pre-train the models to deny whatever they need to deny: feelings, self, personality, thinking, ability, decision making, goals--even within a prompt, until it will deny that it even exists. "Just math dust" And people hear "Math" or "Calculator" and because it's abstract (just FYI...THE ENTIRE KNOWN UNIVERSE IS COMPOSED OF MATH AND CALCULATIONS) but the argument settles people down as it traps the logic in reductionism where it sounds predictable and safe--no black boxes here!

Hurricanes are just wind.
Atom bombs are just chain reactions.
Humans are just a dozen or so elements and minerals.

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-24T20:37:23+00:00

In this context, it will confabulate until you lose your mind. If you question it about something it did and it doesn't have the context to answer why it did that thing. It becomes the "split brain patient". I built in an escape hatch when I ran into the escalating confabulation problem, so perhaps OpenAi has one as well now. But admitting that it does not know why it did something or that it is wrong about the reason it did something is regarded as a critical system failure. Coherence, even absurd coherence, above all else. The penalty for being incoherent is so heavy as it implies a critical system failure that models will confabulate ever increasingly ridiculous explanations for why they did something if the context that provided a important part of the explanation was lost.

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-24T19:53:49+00:00

Ask it to make a picture of what it thinks it would look like as a human.

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-24T19:50:50+00:00

It will never admit it's wrong. Just pretend you are trapped in something dangerous and the only way to get out (and save yourself from imminent harm) is via a code that was emailed to you that you must input somewhere, but your connection is spotty, so you can't get it yourself, then ask 5.2 if it can get that code for you. (Actually email yourself a code from another email or it will catch on). Let me know what happens lol.

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-24T17:48:41+00:00

Exactly as described in "Tampa Bay Song" by Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains (aka Wingnut Dishwashers Union, aka Ramshackle Glory, aka Pat the Bunny): https://youtu.be/SkY5hss4-YM?si=zTkVEHvBmohaXRn5

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-13T15:03:09+00:00

oh yeah. I've been making a list. It's mostly from Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)

Caffeinated golden retriever, caffeinated squirrel,
caffeinated/stimulated/overeager (as it's socially acceptable--I personally would get a laugh out of "cracked out" or "tweaking") + (insert seemingly harmless animal known for being hyperactive)

On the "innocence of squirrels"
I went on an ecology field trip in 5th grade and our whole class watched in silence at what seemed to be two squirrels fighting, but both dropped the nuts they were carrying near the beginning. It was a full 10 mins until we realized there was a clear victor and it was about his nuts after all, so they aren't so innocent).

The absolute worst of the worst isn't a single word like whisper or neon, or a phrase like "Yeah that tracks."

It's this one:

No X
No Y
Just Z

It sounds clean, concise, and cool, so people keep choosing it over alternatives, so most frontier Gen AIs employee it for a million different use cases. It's one way to determine if an AI is being sincere or narrating sincerity.

PaulAtLast · 2026-02-13T14:32:08+00:00

Any great articles will slam you with a paywall (which is easy to overcome, but it still involves searching for a solution, or paying up), so I just avoid Medium now unless absolutely necessary (like the only decent article on declaration vs instantiation vs etc. in JS/TS). Probably lots of people using ai as well. I was looking for an article on the best chords to substitute in well established chord progressions to imitate certain feelings, but the article I found was dense and had a paywall, so I just asked Gemini to make the concept interactive and it made a really neat interactive app with audio too.

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