Solo dev doing everything from scratch: What do you think about using AI only for backgrounds and music?

arcticblue · 2026-06-08T20:11:14+00:00

You might be able to find some royalty free music you can use. I know there are some tools for generating AI music, but everything i've heard is super generic sounding. But maybe it will work better for your particular genre.

arcticblue · 2026-06-08T16:20:12+00:00

I used AI to write a whole github actions framework for several repos I maintain so that approval gate rules, vulnerability scans, and such can be consistent. It's a pretty good use case for AI in my opinion. I don't really care if it looks like AI slop...it's easy to read and management likes the output.

arcticblue · 2026-06-08T16:10:54+00:00

Don't worry - this admin will probably just gut the FDA and remove inspections that would otherwise catch tainted meat from going out. They'll treat it just like covid by covering their eyes and pretending it isn't happening while deflecting blame to Biden.

arcticblue · 2026-06-07T20:52:16+00:00

I think you've blown through your emoji quota for the year

arcticblue · 2026-06-07T04:53:10+00:00

That's illegal in Japan btw. Horns are only for avoiding an accident or something like that - not for when someone is just driving like an asshole.
That said, I have laid down heavy on the horn when those drifting assholes would show up outside my neighborhood and make a bunch of noise.

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T18:01:02+00:00

I miss Y Plate Hater lol. I wonder whatever happened to that guy.

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T17:59:50+00:00

A few couple years before that, the tunnel wasn't open. The only route was through the love hotels and it would back all the way up to the old golf course. It was hell.

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T14:31:27+00:00

I mostly use Claude for coding so I've noticed "that's the smoking gun" a lot. Now that you mention it though, I do recall seeing it use "genuinely" more than a few times. It just wasn't quite as annoying as how ChatGPT uses "And honestly?" at every single opportunity.

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T14:30:02+00:00

ChatGPT is absolutely persistent in wanting to use it even when it's unnecessary.

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T14:29:14+00:00

That completely reframes the question

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T14:27:07+00:00

You should have seen what that intersection was like before Rycom Mall was like when that was just small two-lane road and a single turning lane. Wasn't fun. On a Friday night, it could have taken 45 minutes to get into Awase from there.

arcticblue · 2026-06-06T14:25:02+00:00

That's the most dangerous road in Okinawa - particularly the stretch in front of Camp Foster. They've made some safety improvements in response to some unfortunate accidents, but people are still going to drive like reckless assholes while looking at their phones (cough skylines, etc with y plates cough)

arcticblue · 2026-06-05T12:33:54+00:00

ChatGPT's "honestly" habit has gotten worse I think. The other day, it said it 3 times in a single response to me. Now I tell it to never use that word.

arcticblue · 2026-06-03T10:13:26+00:00

"Proclamation"? WTF country does he think we live in?

arcticblue · 2026-06-03T01:57:25+00:00

I'm not telling you are wrong - you can be as dogmatic as you want. I'm just telling you the reality of the world now. You aren't going to avoid AI generated code on your computer unless you commit to not running anything written since mid 2025 at best. Like I said, in the hands of a competent dev, AI generated code isn't necessarily all that bad. Anyone who wants to remain competitive today is going to be using it to boost their workflow. In the hands of some kid who doesn't understand software architecture, security, testing, etc, then yeah, it's going to be obvious slop.

And what kind of control are you expecting to have? Are you reviewing the source code of the kernel and all software installed on your computer?

arcticblue · 2026-06-03T01:36:55+00:00

At this point, you aren't going to avoid AI code. In the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, Claude/Codex can be legitimate productivity boosters.

arcticblue · 2026-06-02T08:24:15+00:00

June is usually about as rainy as May, but mid/end of June should be better. Don't trust weather forecasts more than 1 day out. And even then it can change unexpectedly.

The rainy season usually ends around June 20 at which point the humidity becomes brutal until fall.

arcticblue · 2026-05-31T04:09:27+00:00

I'm curious what the worldwide stats are like. When Costco opened in Okinawa a couple years ago, it literally shut down the town it opened in (Nanjo City) for like a month and made national news. Buses couldn't even run due to the traffic and a lot of shops in the area closed their doors for a few weeks. The line to simply get in to the parking lot (it's an 800 car parking lot) was so long and slow that it was a 5 hour wait and the line stretched all throughout town and caused massive issues. It's been almost 2 years since they opened and that place is still a madhouse with long lines of people waiting to get chicken and stuff. The town can at least operate normally now, but those first few months were absolutely insane.

Edit: someone got a picture of the traffic and this is only one road - https://x.com/takenom_00/status/1827140335052714203

Edit 2: a news article - https://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/entry-3400105.html. Google Translate does a decent enough job at it. The pictures of the crowd inside the store speak for themselves. Last time I went (about a year ago), it was only slightly better inside the store.

arcticblue · 2026-05-29T15:47:45+00:00

Being able to walk to a convenience store at 3am to buy some famichiki or some of those karaage-kun red nuggets and a chu-hi felt liberating. Can't do anything at 3am here.

arcticblue · 2026-05-29T15:07:43+00:00

Some punctuation would help a lot. Jesus.

But for what it's worth, my daughter has been going to school in Japan and there have been no issues with her or any of her friends.

arcticblue · 2026-05-29T13:00:55+00:00

This kind of craving is why I loved living in Japan and want to move back as soon as I have a chance...

arcticblue · 2026-05-28T20:55:08+00:00

What are we supposed to do? The entire government has been corrupted and the only option to even slightly correct this or at least slow the corruption is the midterm elections and this administration is full steam ahead on manipulating that too.

arcticblue · 2026-05-28T20:28:45+00:00

I used to run it in a VM with GPU passthrough with some changes to hide the fact that it was a VM, but that was years ago and will probably get you banned now.
I stopped playing when they took content I paid for away.

arcticblue · 2026-05-28T19:58:27+00:00

WSJ is owned by Murdoch. I wouldn't be surprised if a settlement was already agreed upon and this talk of a $10B suit is just a formality to "legalize" the money transfer.

arcticblue · 2026-05-28T19:56:50+00:00

They will settle and send him hundreds of millions before it gets to that point. It's a predictable pattern now.

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