Monica Dinculescu
Software engineer and artist who worked at Google on Chrome, Polymer and Magenta; writes about code, art and AI on her site meowni.ca.
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The autotune on the new Strokes album is a deliberate choice worth respecting in an era of AI slop.
Their wordsI’ve decided the autotune is a deliberate choice; cubism, basically, which you have to respect in an era of AI slop where everyone sounds the same.
- 3 months earlier
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Their wordsJapan has, by some fairly significant margin, the best words. German has the hyperspecificity, but Japanese has the poetry.
- 3 weeks earlier
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The best thing to come out of the AI slop era may be good bands getting back to making music.
Their wordsMy current theory (slash hopeful prayer) is that the best thing we are going to get out of all this AI slop era is the good bands dusting themselves off and getting back in the van.
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsI have long harbored the opinion that Ellsworth Kelly sucks and now I can tell you, with some structural backing, that imo he fails all three.
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Their wordsWhy does everything have to be so big these days to be taken seriously? Bring back the Dalis.
- 18 months earlier
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Language-model chatbots are good at guessing but not smart, which makes for very convincing lies.
Their wordsThey’re reallllly good at guessing but not actually that smart, which leads to very convincing lies
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Their wordsAbsolutely no thank you to the scam that is “prompt engineering”.
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AI coding assistants are not about to replace programmers but can help with programming's tedium.
Their wordsI’m not really worried it’s showing signs to replace me, but I am hoping it can help with some of the tedium programming requires.