So we'll be going back to publishers as curators. Good for the publishers, I guess.

Larrikin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think DJs with even a light catalog of their own original music will become some of the most important artists instead. Nobody has any interest in going back to the old system.

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starkeeper 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On a similar note I recently deleted a whole bunch of automated tests because if the AI is going to write most of the code then I should test it to make sure it's good! This won't work for all projects, but for my indie games it's a good idea.

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rectang 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> I recently deleted a whole bunch of automated tests because if the AI is going to write most of the code then I should test it to make sure it's good!

You say you deleted the tests, because you "should test it"? The logic seems inconsistent.

Sanity checking LLM-generated code with LLM-generated automated tests is low-cost and high-yield because LLMs are really good at writing tests.

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0xfaded 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think LLMs are really bad at writing tests. In the good old days you invested in your test code to be structured and understandable. Now we all just say "test this thing you just generated".

I shipped a really embarrassing off-by-one error recently because some polygon representations repeat their last vertex as a sentinel (WKT, KML do this). When I checked the "tests", there was a generated test that asserted that a square has 5 vertices.

	▲	rectang 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I suppose that my generalization was too broad and that LLMs can be either good or bad at writing tests depending on your workflow and expectations. I'm closely supervising the LLM, giving it fine-grained instructions — I generally understand the full interface design and most times the whole implementation (though sometimes I skim). When I have the LLM write unit tests for me, it writes essentially what I would have written a couple years ago, except that it tends to be more thorough and add a few more tests I wouldn't have had the patience to write. That saves me quite a bit of time, and the LLM-generated unit tests are probably somewhat better than what I would have written myself. I won't say that I never see brain-dead mistakes of the "5-vertex square" variety (haha) — by their nature, LLMs tend towards consistency rather than understanding after all. But I've been using Claude Opus exclusively for while and it doesn't tend to make those mistakes nearly as often as I used to see with lower-powered LLMs.

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otabdeveloper4 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> ...because LLMs are really good at writing tests.

No, they're absolutely shit at writing tests. Writing tests is mostly about risk and threat analysis, which LLMs can't do.

(This is why LLMs write "tests" that check if inputs are equal to outputs or flip `==` to `!=`, etc.)

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r_lee 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this seems like a pattern seen across industries when it comes to AI

even more consolidation and lock in

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subscribed 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As an user I wouldn't mind as long as it's attributed and I can skip it.

Pisses me off on YouTube - it's really hard to find something genuine in the sea of the AI written, AI subbed, AI generated and AI published - it's a scourge not because it's there, but because the channels are lying about it AND because 99.99999% of what I encountered it's not worth the waste heat processing a "publish 100 catchy videos about current affairs".

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insane_dreamer 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Good for users too; I much prefer a curated selection since I don't have time to drink from the firehose

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twoodfin 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why? HN isn’t “curating” the wave of AI-written tech article slop. Unclear if they should, readers here love it!

Hard to believe these models won’t get better and better at producing music that humans want to listen to.

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sph 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The problem has never been that AI music doesn't sound good.

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QuercusMax 5 hours ago | parent [-]

If you're already listening to bland generic pop country slop, then the AI version isn't much worse, but that's not a great thing to shoot for.

AI music I've heard universally sounds bland and robotic.

	▲	sph 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yes, for sure, but it's not more training that is gonna make it sound like Mozart. There is no soul behind, it can only be bland and robotic, even if it sounds polished and well-produced, if you can call it like that.