I’ve just spent an hour learning a cool little lick on guitar that was AI generated by my brother in like 10 seconds. What the hell is life anymore?

A brief essay on AI coding, filmmaking, and how Ari Aster is vibe coding the next Midsommar. Slightly unhinged, mostly true. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

If Claude is so smart, why do I need to tell it not to send node_modules as context. If I'm so smart, why didn't I do that in the first place. 2025 is weird.

Separately, why wasn't I told that Don't Look Up is a masterpiece? I thought it was just some goofy whatever movie, but it's great. Every actor disappears, and it feels so possible.

6pm: Wow. Thanks Claude, 4 hours of time back. 8pm: Maybe not. 10pm: Def not. 12am: Never again, Claude. 1am: I didn't know what I was saying! Claude! I'm so sorry!!! Please fix this. 3am: You are hopeless. 4am: You did it! You fixed it! 8am: Ahem. I did this...

I think I started understanding AI usefulness when I realized it's basically a smart but nondeterministic primitive. Everything else is controlling that silliness.

Hello world. Ok, fine, that was ChatGPT.