This is really impressive! I love how you combined AI assistance with schematics, patents, and ROMs to recreate it.

Thank you so much. Yeah it's really cool. I also bought myself a copy of Max MSP and I'm recreating it visually so I can tweak all the parameters and really understand what's going on because the AI did all of the theory for me but I have all the numbers. When you tweak the numbers it makes it sound totally different. So yeah I'm excited. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to build electronic music gear. I'm not saying AI is not going to be able to do that one day but I just can't do web programming anymore. I don't know. I've been doing it too long and I just don't like it anymore.

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chunkmonke99 4 days ago | parent [-]

Wait you used Claude Code to recreate patents and schematics? Are the schematics for this easily available somewhere? Was Claude just able to one-shot this?

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johnwheeler 4 days ago | parent [-]

I use Claude more as a learning tool in this context. It's kind of funny actually got the idea because I heard that in China they're basically replacing teachers with AI, where we're trying to get AI out of our school systems in the United States. So I went into it with that mindset instead of trying to have Claude do the whole thing to teach me how to do it so I understand it and I'm still learning, trying to recreate things with Max so I can have a lot more control and really play with it. I'm learning that reverb creation is a real craft.

It's not able to one-shot it yet but I'm sure that's coming this year sometime. I did the UI a hundred percent by myself and I went in there and tweaked it and tried to rebuild it and just try to understand how reverb works etc. I also did a lot of the software licensing just because I have experience with that.

	▲	chunkmonke99 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I am not seeing any evidence of China "replacing teachers with AI" anywhere (did some googling/geminiing). Are there any sources on this? Seems like they are trying to introduce students to GenAI/ML principles and creating "AI literacy guidelines" without just "replacing teachers with AI". Their current guidelines outright prohibit the use of AI to replace teachers' responsibilities. What is the point of asking it to teach you something to "understand it" if Claude can just do it for you? This is the real question everyone should be asking beyond just employment (employment will definitely change in the coming months, no doubt). I would pivot away from programming personally.