I’ve been going all in with AI. Programming, artwork, music, philosophical research. All in.
Let me share the ride.
Programming first. Since May 1st, my babies have gotten massive upgrades. RTFM hit v6.0 with remote browsing, SSH integration, enhanced tab management. The file manager can now browse remote systems. And it’s completely rewritten with rcurses My Ruby shell (v2.9) got AI integration - just type @ or @@ to chat with AI right from the command line. IMDB terminal was also completely rewritten using rcurses and improved with TMDb integration. Astropanel now rocks the IAU 2006 obliquity standard - way more accurate. UI improvements and based on rcurses. Telescope got tons of improvements. XRPN received critical bug fixes. T-REX now integrates with XRPN. And the foundation for most of these - rcurses - hit v5.0 with major improvements while keeping full backward compatibility.
I’ve also build several larger projects from scratch that will soon come into public view - like a full movies/series database with AI suggestions for what to watch along where to find streaming providers to watch them, custom lists - private, public and shared with family and friends (like Spotify), and with tons of functionality. A multi-tenant chatbot solution was built from scratch in a week.
I saw one user on Reddit posting a date picker tool for the terminal that he had spent a year creating. It was really cool. With Claude Code I created something slightly better in less than 30 minutes; datepick.
Claude Code has been a really good tool. Like having a tireless coding companion who actually gets what you’re trying to do.
But it’s not just code.
Music creation has exploded. Two new albums are out: Spacesynth and Zanzibar. You can preview the full Spacesynth album on HearNow. Both albums are on Apple Music, YouTube Music, and basically everywhere. Third album (Italo Disco) coming out in a couple of days.
The philosophical rabbit holes? Deep. Using AI as a sparring partner for exploring consciousness, free will and the nature of reality.
A few take-aways from going all in:
- AI doesn’t replace creativity - it amplifies it
- The bottleneck isn’t the tech, it’s your imagination
- Good prompting is key (like I wrote in my earlier post)
- What works today will be outdated next week
If you’re sitting on the fence - jump. The water’s fine and getting finer every day.
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