I figured out the last annoying details in replacing the old school PowerPC software stack for creating music for Sega Saturn games! Now you can not only create your own music using midi and convert it to the SEQ format, but also create your own sound samples and convert it to a TON file! Published today here: https://github.com/jfsantos/mid2seq. (project name will change to reflect everything it does now, and I will also probably also move it to Codeberg).

i have a feeling that everyone who is arguing about LLMs in the sense of stuff like productivity, quality of the output, performance or functionality of generated code, largely even licensing or whatnot is kinda missing the point

even if LLMs generated the best code in the world, i would not be using them

even if LLMs gave me the biggest ever productivity boost i would not be using them

even if the output was clean copyright-wise and fully original, i would still not be using them

i can't consciously support a worldwide slop machine that helps and finances the rise of fascism, that helps further oppression, that helps a bunch of billionaires control public opinion, that drives society-wide psychosis with far-reaching consequences, that attempts to strip all joy from activities people like while using that to make the rich even richer, and that's not even getting to environmental stuff or whatever

i'm getting left behind you say

well fuck your industry and fuck you