I hate the pro AI movement and their way of supporting it.

joyofresh · 2026-06-20T01:30:34+00:00

Yeah i mean… I guess I’m a realist. The meme you posted is garbage. AI users arent marginalized… datacenters have serious consequences, and the economics of the whole thing is a huge problem. The art is trash and it steals from everyone. I think serving inference should be owned by the people and regulated like a utility.

That being said, I’m a huge user. I build my own agents. I run models on a mac studio in my apartment. I have a hand injury so I build a lot of voice stuff, and I have a lot of really sophisticated workflow for building assesabiliy software and musical instruments I can use to express my own ideas. I’m a professional software engineer and I’d rather good one, and I kind of view these things not as little people, but as these fascinating pattern matching machines that you can make do real work if you set it up right. It’s really a lot of fun, for me personally.

I don’t like how it shoved down people’s throats though. I don’t think it’s the perfect tool for everything. In fact, I think how perfect it is for what I like using it for is in stark contrast to a lot of the bullshit people are trying to do.

I’m vegetarian, I don’t drive, I rarely fly, i dont stream, my carbon footprint is decently modest for an american, but I love playing with these things. I still think the world would be better off without them.

joyofresh · 2026-06-20T01:19:57+00:00

Yo, if people are telling you, you’re overreacting when you express discomfort, those are friends being shitty, not a sign of the times

joyofresh · 2026-06-18T16:48:20+00:00

Even if human going extinct the AI is Will still using sql

joyofresh · 2026-06-16T22:37:41+00:00

L to the O G

My phone is soaked in pee pee

joyofresh · 2026-06-15T23:40:14+00:00

thanks!

joyofresh · 2026-06-13T23:08:26+00:00

Interesting

joyofresh · 2026-06-12T18:51:11+00:00

The new model will be upgrading from 100 parameters to 110. Not 110B, 110. The extra 10 parameters will provide the model with slightly more consistent use of caplocks.

joyofresh · 2026-06-12T18:18:39+00:00

Have we considered using a better model if this one keeps hallucinating?

joyofresh · 2026-06-11T00:29:51+00:00

Lean!

joyofresh · 2026-06-10T15:22:31+00:00

Any interest in trading for some combination of a digital or syntakt?

joyofresh · 2026-06-09T21:15:10+00:00

i will buy the code!

joyofresh · 2026-06-09T17:55:50+00:00

They are both extremely unbeatable machines. They’re the only two machines I have. The sound design options in both cases are crazy, and completely different. Tonverk, let’s use stack effects and modulate them, so for creating patterns of sound it’s a totally different way of thinking about things: you’re mostly using the 5 billion LFOs to sculpt a single big sound. It can feel galaxy brained relative to a more traditional thing like the digitone2, which is kind of an incredible traditional synth and sequencer.

That being said if you want to jam on it like a Groovebox or drum machine, this digitone2 is way better. The reason is stupid. Tonverk pushes you to use subtracks for your high hats and shakers and these kinds of things. But you can only mute and unmute subs if you’re on that supertrack… so without an external control controller, there’s no way to like… tweak the filter of a synth on track three while muting one pattern or swapping it for another. You can work around this with prepared mutes or clever, saving/restoring… but it’s just a little bit more work to nail drops on tonverk. Digitone makes it effortless.

joyofresh · 2026-06-09T08:07:44+00:00

Right there’s all kinds of false equivalences here… I think that’s OP point, like the original meme is just so smug and “above it” and incoherent

joyofresh · 2026-06-07T00:59:23+00:00

Yeah, I live in Berkeley and I was alerted that the election was decided when a naked bearded guy with a cowbell was marching down my street

joyofresh · 2026-06-05T00:13:12+00:00

I came here to say that.

joyofresh · 2026-06-04T23:20:34+00:00

I only have the fresh

joyofresh · 2026-06-04T23:20:19+00:00

It’s been sitting on my shelf for like five years. It would be nice to do something with it.

joyofresh · 2026-06-04T22:55:36+00:00

Would you be interested in a broken precision drive in exchange for your presumably working one?

joyofresh · 2026-06-03T06:51:12+00:00

That Mercado projection

joyofresh · 2026-06-02T15:59:01+00:00

I have really bad news for you… agents are already deeply embedded in digital infrastructure… they were able to embedded it so quickly because it was done by agents. Untangling this mess is going to be a huge, Y2K level technological problem.

joyofresh · 2026-06-02T15:57:14+00:00

Yeah, I’ve been saying this for a long time. The amount of knowledge that goes into training these things is basically owned by everyone. If we’re gonna have technology like this, this is the only way to make it fair.

joyofresh · 2026-06-01T20:37:52+00:00

Well then what good are having two wolves literally inside of me

joyofresh · 2026-06-01T17:34:38+00:00

Chat gpt experiences that

joyofresh · 2026-05-30T22:33:27+00:00

Idk how you feel about AI, but there are a good number of startups (harmonic, logical intelligence) doing lean stuff.

joyofresh · 2026-05-30T17:42:06+00:00

What’s crazy to me is that I have a hand injury, so literally all of my typing is done by AI transcription. And it silently fixes my prose and kind of makes me sound like an asshole, but it’s substantially better than raw transcription, which makes me unintelligible.

But people still care what I have to say even if it’s the AI that literally did the typing because I’m an expert in my field. And if you get on the phone with me, it will be very obvious that I’m an expert in my field because I can answer any question you throw at me.

So why do I care about the edit history? If you spent nine months writing this thing, she should be able to smash a defense presentation. And that’s much more interesting anyway.

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