Adrian Holovaty

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented

YouTube video by Neural Viz This Is News

For me it's the "This is News" series by Neural Viz. So well done! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHb-...

YouTube video by Dae Lims Let's Go To Heaven In My Car: A Tribute To Brian Wilson [AI]

This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...

Nope, that's not true. I don't recall a single person ever requesting ASCII tab support since I founded Soundslice in 2012. Otherwise we likely would have added it. In fact we're very responsive to users and sometimes even implement feature requests the same day they're requested.

Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.

Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.

Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.

If it were me, I'd get some locally made tortilla chips: El Ranchero (www.rancherofood.com/products/). Available at many grocery stores. Not sure whether you can get authentic tortilla chips in VA, but here in Amsterdam it's a chip desert.

YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty Behind the scenes: "Rock And Roll Roger"

I'm trying a new thing: here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the multitracks in one of my recent EP tunes.

Yes, that exists: www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-...

Sure, here are some of my favorite blues albums:

* BB King, "Live in Cook County Jail" (similar vibe)
* Albert King, "Born Under A Bad Sign"
* Paul Butterfield Blues Band's self-titled debut album
* John Mayall, "Blues Breakers" (the "Beano" album)

"Respect" is definitely owned by Aretha Franklin despite it being an Otis Redding tune originally.

When he looks at church attendance figures, he'll be hearing "Wow, look at those low rates"

Chicago-Style Pope. A white man with a robust dark mustache wearing sunglasses along with the formal white and gold garb of the pope. The space inside his mitre is filled with oversized Chicago hot dog toppings (tomato, sport peppers, green relish, a pickle) and some yellow mustard is running down the front of the hat. In his left hand he’s holding a good staff topped by a gilded Italian beef sandwich with a little halo and he’s making a blessing gesture with his right hand.

I invariably check it whenever I'm heading to a new (to me) place. Sometimes the site can be outdated, but overall it's got great nuggets.

Tons of percussion improvements | Soundslice product updates We’ve spent the last several weeks making lots of Soundslice improvements specifically for percussion.

At Soundslice we've launched a lot of great new stuff specifically for drummers and percussionists. Percussion maps, auto-generated percussion legends, better synth playback and more.

www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...

Turns out "Roman goats sail big boats" is a useful mnemonic for the Roman numerals

Soundslice! Excellent scanning, with full-featured editing and practice tools in a single elegant package.

Thanks Sara — much appreciated! :)

YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty Senseless Swing - Adrian Holovaty

Hey, it's my first YouTube video in more than a year. Here's my tune "Senseless Swing."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...

I hear the plot really builds over time

Stepping away from your creation is bittersweet for sure.

Congrats on all you've done with Sentry! I'll be excited to see what you build next. :)

Reading this certainly didn't make me fitter, happier

RADDLE The daily word transformation game

Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.

raddle.quest

It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.

RadioFreeBirdland

Thank you sir! Frank Vignola is great — check out his weekly "Guitar Night" livestream from Birdland if you weren't already hip to it: www.youtube.com/@RadioFreeBi...

Off-white background. Abstract layer cake with 5 levels (yellow, pink, blue, red and green), with different Truchet patterns on each one.

I had the pleasure of creating another album cover for Adrian Holovaty 🍰

www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/

My new EP is out today! It's called Layer Cake and has five original tunes.

www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/

It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)

Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.

Hadn't heard this reported elsewhere: evidently Ray Brown's upright bass got destroyed in the LA wildfires. :-(

www.talkbass.com/threads/r-i-...

These people are your enemies

New features, Dec. 12 | Soundslice product updates It’s been a while since we posted a proper product update! Here’s how Soundslice has improved in the last two months, grouped by category.

Here's what I've been working on — lots of new Soundslice improvements:

www.soundslice.com/blog/282/new...

But will the data include astrological sign?