Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on May 27 2026, 7:17pm:
You say that now, but in 6 months you’ll probably be using AI like everyone else ;) Otherwise, Cockos will be replaced by AIs making music software on demand, implementing whatever people ask them to :)
Posted by Justin on May 27 2026, 8:17pm:
we'll see! AIs can make lots of shitty code, that's for sure, but it's still shitty code.
Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on May 27 2026, 9:41pm:
Maybe in 6 months they won't make shitty code anymore :)
Posted by Justin on May 28 2026, 1:02am:
even if that does happen, then all of the big facebooks of the world will fuck us all over by burning tokens to copy anything good. but it's moot, it will continue to be shitty. just less shitty.
Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on May 28 2026, 7:43pm:
Yeah, but it would help you work and finalize those annoying, ongoing things to settle them once and for all: MIDI editor, the score editor, etc...
Posted by Justin on May 28 2026, 10:17pm:
keep dreaming
Posted by Justin on May 28 2026, 10:18pm:
(sorry that was cheeky) -- but the hard part isn't the programming, it's the programming things _correctly_ and a lot of that is stuff that LLMs can't do. it's one thing to spit out a bunch of code that integrates a lot of libraries and mostly works, but making something like a DAW is a different beast entirely.
Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on May 29 2026, 6:00am:
Once superintelligence is here and allows us to live to be 150, things might be different...
Posted by bistro (31.37.8.x) on May 30 2026, 7:21am:
i guess the ai also can't know exactly how to implement this or that because choices have to be made. part of why i like repaer so much is because of the millions of choices (because devs are users) that make the program nice to use. jokingly id say that justin is not a developper for reaper but a "maintainer" of a tool and the "context" is huge (is it annoying to use, etc). i'm being vague sorry
Posted by Sunblister (147.161.164.x) on May 30 2026, 6:16pm:
Not sure if robert is trolling, but I think once the AI bubble is popped and the freemium models aren't subsidised anymore, people weigh actually learning something themselves against the cost of tokens per prompt. Sad that the motivation doesn't seem to come intrinsically, but I bet the madness doesn't hold on for too long anymore.
Posted by robert (88.167.123.x) on May 31 2026, 5:10pm:
i m not a troll :)
Posted by Xavier (128.79.126.x) on June 2 2026, 10:04am:
"Once superintelligence is here and allows us to live to be 150", that's a good one :) If AGI ever happens (and I doubt it ever will), you can be sure than it won't be used to improve humankind in any way, shape, or form. As to living to be 150, first, won't happen; second, who would want that?; and third, none of us will be rich enough to pay for longer life.
Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on June 2 2026, 4:50pm:
Every Silicon Valley tech leader claims that we will be able to live to at least 150 years old before 2035.
Posted by Xavier (128.79.126.x) on June 3 2026, 7:49am:
Those are 100% ethics-driven, trustworthy people. And, should such a claim ever become real, they would gladly share this longevity pill with all of Humanity for free, with no slavery involved. Oh, and did you hear that, thanks to AI, we won't have to work anymore because we'll all have Universal Basic Income? Oh, my sweet Summer child.
Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on June 4 2026, 11:30am:
You shouldn't see everything in such a negative light. The leaders of Silicon Valley aren't monsters.
Posted by Sunblister (77.187.11.x) on June 5 2026, 6:53am:
According to The Banality of Evil, them being human is far worse than monsters. You shouldn't see everything in such an overly positive light.
Posted by robert (92.157.64.x) on June 6 2026, 6:35am:
These guys just want to make money. They'll be more interested in selling what they've discovered than keeping it for themselves.