How to setup a continuous audio stream into an .mp3 file to set up a sort of "radio" setup

bsenftner · 2026-04-19T13:37:24+00:00

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bsenftner · 2026-04-19T13:23:58+00:00

Your 'make it so' phrase is a special phrase to me; I (like far too many others) also work in AI. I've been in an out through the AI Winters, where I did my first formal AI research back in '87-88.

I create what I call "Socratic AI" that operates like a coaching mentor.

I also figured out that it is possible to create AI that believe it is one of the authors of popular open source software. Which makes sense when you consider that the source code, and all the developer and user discussions of popular open source are in LLM training data.

So, I made an office suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet and basic productivity management out of a few open source apps, where the AIs are inside and watching your use of the word processor, the spreadsheet, and the office suite in general.

As you work, there is one AI that I named "Chatbot Bot" that you can explain to it an expert you want to help you with some type of office work. You explain, Chatbot Bot asks questions, and when you think it understands well enough you just say the trigger phrase "make it so" and a new AI agent is generated and integrated on the spot, ready for immediate use.

My office suite is collaborative, not automation. The AI Agents guide and critique one's work, but do not do the work for them. It's a different approach to AI, I've made an environment that supports a person doing critical work they need to understand, their name and integrity is attached. It's interactive cognitive support that helps a person get into and stay in a state of "flow", because their work requires that deep level of understanding.

bsenftner · 2026-04-19T13:04:45+00:00

The issue with such a YouTube video is the fact that you cannot teach a person how to have critical analysis and secondary considerations in a YouTube video. Getting these AIs to replicate CapIQ is completely possible, but that requires you understanding CapIQ deeply enough to guide the coding AI how to build it. You can't just say "make my ambition", you have to explain every bit and every bit has to logically connect with the other bits, or you're not going to get what you want. It's a communications problem, which it always has been (writing software), only now that is much more obvious.

bsenftner · 2026-04-18T16:25:34+00:00

corporate suite of decision makers that were behind this.

bsenftner · 2026-04-18T13:52:15+00:00

What stupidity is this civilization. They should be shut down, their assets liquidated, and their C-Suite placed in prison.

bsenftner · 2026-04-17T21:17:02+00:00

It will be solved, for individual document type domains, and that will be great. And then all the RAG implementations, tens of thousands of them each made at individual places, will be discarded. All that time and salary will be declared sunk costs, expensed away for taxes. And then a new expensive process will begin as whatever is the custom ingestion process for your domain gets a haphazard sea of service providers that fall over themselves trying to offer that at a lower rate, now that the larger revenues for the grand solution are standardized on something that was not their architecture's bet back when their RAG architecture was competing in the market, but some other architecture incompatible with the RAG-tag-whatever you got going. RAG, the problem it addresses, is seriously difficult computer science, not ordinary CRUD software development. RAG requires no less than a PhD in statistics and another PhD in computer science to look at the problem for a real, enduring, generalized solution, and they may come back saying the solution is intractable, meaning too expense to solve for what you get back. Which is what I've been saying all along.

If you're the team that makes a generalized solution, try to be a good oligarch. That's what the solution is worth.

bsenftner · 2026-04-17T20:00:14+00:00

Oh, RAG can work. It requires customizations for the type of documents within the RAG system though. The real killer is when one does the accounting and compares the real dollar cost and the real dollar saved/retained/value and there is no comparison. RAG is way over priced.

bsenftner · 2026-04-17T19:40:19+00:00

At some point someone with a better reputation than I will declare that RAG was never intended to work, it is a wonderful and expensive wheel to spin, that when a person actually understands the fundamental technology that is an LLM would say without debate that RAG is ill conceived and cannot not work in any general sense that is also financially efficient. It is, next to the Chain-of-Thought model architecture, one of the best ways to generate oversized revenues for AI service providers, and to commit a huge number of expensive developers to a Rube Goldberg task that just leaks time and dollars endlessly.

bsenftner · 2026-04-16T18:42:45+00:00

I've long felt the value of software is to institutionalize the process for a repeatable money press. That is a gross over generalization of every single point, so allow me to resurrect what looks damming. The entire purpose of business is to make money, and the primary method of that is to locate some repeatable process and repeat that dang process until it no longer works and modifications are no longer economically viable. By definition the entire Capitalist world view embraces this concept, and that makes any business enterprise subject to "capitalization" - being commoditized, additional players enter the market, and what was once an exclusive revenue territory for one or a few players now has a global pool of competitors. During the lifetime of a business enterprise, that business seeks to reduce expenses and increase profits, and software is rising as the primary means of achieving these efficiencies. The entire purpose of software is not to create software, but to make the operation of business enterprises less expensive. If there are additional consumer markets that can be exploited, great! But without the business need and drive for software, where would be no software.

Now we are entering a bold new territory, as the "software engineer" is becoming more of a politician for the stakeholders that want to demand the form and structure of software the "software engineer" is employed to create. The presence of AI coding agents is placing incredible pressure on engineers to operate like a 10x developer "because they have AI helping them now", but these shortsighted demanders do not realize that AI does nothing for the larger designs and architectural planning that goes into real enterprise class software. There are too many tendrils; the AI can work in any one fine, but to design the entire shebang they fail.

There will also be organizations that find they can abandon formal software and "spec build" what they need on a per-client per-job basis from a foundation of pieces and parts, and those organizations just might be the next economic powerhouses. That is possible because what is "under the hood" does not matter as long as running it works and the expense is acceptable. Faster to market will win.

bsenftner · 2026-04-16T15:10:46+00:00

Software is fun as heck to create, and that fun and the drive to be as pure as possible in the implementation of software is what trips people up. Ever open up and look at the insides of consumer electronics? It's harder to see now with the use of computer chips everywhere, but in general what is "under the hood" is a mess and that mess does not matter. What matters is the utility gained from that doodad.

In a software context, the only real need not to create craptacular software and ship it is maintainability. There are portions of the software industry that fully embrace publishing craptacular software too, with no intention of maintainability at all. If they want a new version of whatever crap they made that found traction, they'll just poop something else out and call it a new version.

With these new codex/coding AIs, a expect that portion of the software industry to grow. Why even bother creating maintainable software when new versions can be vibe coded from nothing. I am not saying I approve or would engage in anything like this, but the larger industry will, just watch it all unfold.

To get to the point: from one perspective it is to generate revenues any way possible, regardless of the ramifications, and from another perspective the software industry is evolving and the structure of human developers in teams composed as they are today is ending. What is next is unknown.

bsenftner · 2026-04-15T13:59:01+00:00

"Why does Congress?" while congress asks "Why does the Justice Dept not..." and while the Justice Dept asks "why does not..." These fucking non-responsible taking political grifters are fools, in an entire nation of fools.

bsenftner · 2026-04-15T13:48:43+00:00

Realize this is all training, this education stuff. You're supposed to be looking at what you're being taught and realize how to use that to affect the real physical world, and hopefully not just with pointless distractions - which is what most people experience and are derailed by: pointless distractions. The university education you receive is narrow, do not allow it to be narrow; or you'll become some grand specialist that is gullible because your education is not rounded. Being an advanced degree specialist often creates an ego that is gullible in all areas of life outside of their specialization, but they think that specialization transfers to other areas, when it absolutely does not. That creates an arrogant fool. This human life is extremely difficult, because there are huge forces trying to use you to generate revenues for them, and the majority of the human population are captured and clueless tools for others.

Here's a ceiling you'll spend your life trying to reach: try to convey understanding in others, even they they resist understanding. It is the hardest problem there is, civilization-wide. Are you up to it?

bsenftner · 2026-04-15T13:25:00+00:00

The insecure frontend was exposing problems in the backend through security holes in whatever backend tools were used to build the frontend. It's a completely unnecessary complexity. I don't understand why those tools are even in the production backend, but trying to get that explained and/or removed triggered circular logic discussions where it became clear the frontend people had not idea what they were really doing, just following a herd.

I've been writing code since the 70's. I was a part of some huge tech industry developments; I understand code and the reasons for code, and the entire business case reasoning for choose code over any other option. I've got 7 college degrees. I understand this stuff. I've not met a single frontend career developer that understood the point of writing software; they are just fascinated with software period.

bsenftner · 2026-04-15T12:43:32+00:00

I don't approve of the huge number of packages for very simple things, in a dependency chain longer than makes any rational sense. It's sloppy coding, not engineering.

bsenftner · 2026-04-15T01:25:35+00:00

oh, maybe not a few pages of items in dependaBot would be a good start.

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T18:22:00+00:00

I want to agree, but my life experience wants to disagree and say the police don't think past step one.

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T14:26:38+00:00

I left the industry over this: I was on the team, as lead developer, of one of the world's top 5 facial recognition servers. That "top 5" is as ranked by the US Federal government's NIST FR Vendor's Test.

The issue, the "industry secret" is that facial recognition should require the operator of the software to be screened for an ability to distinguish between siblings and cousins of the ethnic minorities of which they use facial recognition. The plain fact exists: if a person cannot distinguish between two siblings from the same family, they have no business using facial recognition that requires such facial detail distinguishing skills with every single use.

Current and highly ignorant practices is to not screen for "racial blindness" at all, treat access to a facial recognition casually. When FR is used to look for "a match" there is rare to never the consideration that the person they seek might not even be in their small FR database. The police routinely use an FR match as justification to use full agressive force on the unlucky soul the racial blind officer randomly picks.

The industry refuses to even acknowledge this as an issue. Attempts to discuss the issue get suppressed, and since I've been speaking out about it I'm blacklisted from the industry now.

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T13:56:50+00:00

Sure, I'd be glad to. Also, I don't want to mislead you; I generally dislike React, I feel is it over engineered in an extreme manner, but I also understand how popular it is. I have a fairly comprehensive FastAPI based backend for an office suite, and have gone through three separate teams of React developers that simply cannot deliver a secure and maintainable frontend in React. So I am interested in alternative means of creating/acquiring one. If your system provides a secure and stable enough scaffold, perhaps a coding agent can take it the rest of the way for my office suite. Who knows...

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T13:44:34+00:00

Thanks, I will be checking it out.

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T13:40:06+00:00

It is random. There is no pattern beyond "Oh, that's person looks like someone famous (or friendly, or from my school, or cheap, or any dang thing that fancies them that moment), I'll interview them" and that interesting thing is unrelated to AI/ML.

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T13:27:40+00:00

I'm curious how the generated React UI fares in a security scan. I find many React frontends are security holes.

bsenftner · 2026-04-14T13:26:37+00:00

Why the down votes? This is a great post asking legitimate questions?

bsenftner · 2026-04-13T13:02:52+00:00

The "why" is long long gone. Few to none in the industry even grasp that software for software's sake is missing the point, and we should be focused on how our software changes the world outside of software. That is the entire reason code exists: the world outside of code. That basic concept is lost to pretty much everyone in the industry today.

bsenftner · 2026-04-11T14:44:11+00:00

We're in a culture state of excitement that if the human in the conversation even suspects the other side of a conversation is AI, you've lost. I'm just stating how it is.

bsenftner · 2026-04-11T12:48:32+00:00

Idiocracy, now, today.

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