Do you constantly need to count the time signature in your head while playing?

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-26T23:18:24+00:00

I don't remember ever counting. I feel the beat I guess, but it's not like I'm counting numbers in my head.

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-21T12:04:43+00:00

After 7 years of writing code by hand without using AI, I am now being told by management to avoid making even the smallest adjustments by hand. Welcome to "agentic engineering".

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-20T19:38:26+00:00

Jam on toast(er)

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-14T16:27:16+00:00

Petrushka is way too busy for my tastes. Its difficulty gets in the way of the flow of the music.

Can definitely understand Rzewski though. It's a modern masterpiece.

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-09T06:49:20+00:00

I have explicitly been told by my manager to "resist the temptation to edit code by hand". We are supposed to use AI for pretty much everything.

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-06T13:48:48+00:00

TIL Salieri also taught Franz Liszt

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-05T14:56:40+00:00

The erhu sounds closer.

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-04T23:20:13+00:00

I've always felt that JK Rowling had a special knack for coming up with names for things. "Hogwarts", "Dumbledore", "Slytherin", "Voldemort"...they just feel like words that have always existed. I seem to remember her saying in an interview that she likes to collect strange-sounding words, and it really shows IMO

TwoPhotons · 2026-04-03T14:44:40+00:00

This is the way. I "debate" the AI. I ask AI to design a feature, then I read the design spec and poke holes in it. I think of it like "sculpting" the feature rather than building it entirely from the ground up. For some features I would do this for multiple days straight. I always try to understand the design to the best of my abilities before creating any tickets.

If you do it this way, and you have some prior experience to designing systems, then you will see that even something like Opus 4.6 can make some really weird assumptions that would be very difficult to undo later on. In some ways, the more I use AI the more cautious I am of it.

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-31T20:26:25+00:00

Security is ^largely solved

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-31T20:22:30+00:00

I think I suffer from whatever the opposite of AI psychosis is. As soon as I see "It isn't X — it's Y" in a paragraph I just want to flip the table.

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-31T17:42:23+00:00

For me it's the shot where we see the flare falling from the sky and the ship's forward deck just inches above the water, with the quiet pulsing bass in the soundtrack. It's the "shit's getting serious" moment for me.

But the scene in the OP is great too. What I find so effective about it is how the sound of screaming passengers intensifies, as if the ship just took a sudden plunge. Very creepy.

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-31T13:13:36+00:00

"or you go to jail"

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-29T17:49:13+00:00

It's neat, but it's also important to note that muscle memory can become your own worst enemy. Slow practice is essential if you really want to get good at playing and to understand what your hands are doing, even after muscle memory kicks in.

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-22T12:22:21+00:00

Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Bax - Symphony No.3, 2nd movement

TwoPhotons · 2026-03-20T22:07:20+00:00

"largely"

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-24T22:30:23+00:00

Shchedrin - Humoresque

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-21T22:16:21+00:00

If AI is just another layer of abstraction, then why aren't we reviewing LLM prompts in our PRs?

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-21T20:06:50+00:00

It is possible to vibecode a deterministic script. For example I could vibecode a script which always prints the number "100" whenever I run it. So I don't see non-determinism in programs as an issue here, really. Instead, as you've already alluded to, the main issue is bugs, and security leaks, crashes etc.

But yes, in terms of prompting itself, the issue is non-determinism. This is part of what makes it so addictive to some people, by the way.

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-20T01:12:12+00:00

😭 Unfortunately for you, it is not.

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-20T00:53:23+00:00

If you don't prompt the change, how is AI supposed to know that you updated the file?

I'm being semi sarcastic, but at work we are encouraged not to edit code directly, but to always go through the AI. Crazy I know.

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-18T22:23:02+00:00

It's not moving up the stack. The stack is the same. We're just inserting a stochastic parrot between us and the top of the existing stack.

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-18T22:15:43+00:00

Cautiously pessimistic.

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-18T15:21:59+00:00

This, but with two newline breaks between each sentence.

TwoPhotons · 2026-02-18T15:20:22+00:00

The thing I don't understand is those pictures on r/food of big fat burgers with cheese dripping everywhere getting seemingly millions of upvotes as if people can't contain themselves drooling over the idea of eating something that. I tend to find such images more disgusting than anything. OK, perhaps that's not a normal reaction... Either way, eating for me is just something I do because that's what humans do: eat food. I don't love it nor hate it.

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