CTO at Roster. Father, husband, software dev, chess nerd, musician, kickboxer. Currently obsessed with large language models.
Joined January 2009
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22 Aug 2025
I've now sold 29 songs, all made using @SunoMusic.
Wrestler walkouts, a magician’s intro, commercials, D&D campaign anthems, even birthday love songs. ⚔️💕
Each track takes 3–10 hours hundreds of generations to nail at the pro level.
Today, I realized something... 🧵
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22 Aug 2025
Generation is a search function.
Every generation = a query into Songspace... The domain of all possible songs.🤯
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22 Aug 2025
The process feels creative—but more like producing than strumming a guitar (I’ve done both).
You’re the one with the cigar, guiding musicians to bring your vision to life.
What you really bring is perspective. Your ear. Your decisions.
I hope more people try this. It’s misunderstood right now, but it can be so rewarding. Cathartic, even.
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12 Dec 2024
Why does OpenAI have this weird history of their whole platform going down in flames any time they launch something?
Day 4 of "12 days of OpenAI" and it's feeling like a bad idea...
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27 Sep 2024
Mechamorphic: attributing uncanny qualities to art that is realistic or human-generated, as part of a fear-based bias against AI-generated art. Often accompanied by the words “soulless” or “dead”, and feelings of anger or dread of being replaced.
Antonym: Anthropomorphic
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18 Sep 2024
This leads to a strange future where your bots call my bots and game out an optimal outcome.
Fascinating. And possibly dystopian?
16 Sep 2024
Built an AI phone agent that calls hotels and gets better prices (and it actually works lol)
Prior coding experience: almost 0
My stack:
@usebland API
PHP
MySQL
Claude, gpt4o, DeepSeek
Coding pose © @levelsio
First heard "AI haggling" idea on @gregisenberg podcast w/@mikekarnj
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12 Sep 2024
So, OpenAI's #strawberry:
- Is not perceived as much stronger
- Takes 10 seconds to respond
- Isn't a new model
We're missing something.
My guess: it's a general agent like AgentGPT, AutoGPT, BabyAGI, etc. They fine-tuned GPT-4o-mini and built some new agentic infrastructure/API.
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5 Sep 2024
I turned my favorite book into an AI film. In 1-2 years, authors will be able to have the option to let readers watch their books.
If you haven't read @mattdinniman's #DungeonCrawlerCarl, you should check out @FiatCelebrity's full audio production of it. #RunwayGen3 #Minimax
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Okay, I'm impressed.
5 Mar 2024
OH MY GOD I'M LOSING MY MIND
Claude is one of the only people ever to have understood the final paper of my quantum physics PhD 😭
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4 Mar 2024
Today, we're announcing Claude 3, our next generation of AI models.
The three state-of-the-art models—Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Haiku—set new industry benchmarks across reasoning, math, coding, multilingual understanding, and vision.
ALT A table of Claude 3 model family benchmarks. Claude 3 Opus, the most capable model, exceeds SOTA across reasoning, math, code, and other evaluations versus GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra.
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11 Dec 2023
In 2019, @RichardSSutton, a prominent figure in reinforcement learning, wrote one of the most insightful essays on AI development to date.
Although it has sparked controversy, it's even more relevant today.
Here's a quick summary🧵
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27 Nov 2023
The new trend: keep asking GPT-4v for more of the same thing, and you get a gradual apotheosis that ends with an abstract, ascended version of it. #ChatGPT4
27 Nov 2023
I kept asking ChatGPT to make this puppy happier and... was not prepared for where it ended up
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19 Nov 2023
Me and TypeScript every single time
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17 Nov 2023
Woof, @sama fired from OpenAI.
Worst case is it has to do with scaling the costs of inference. The timing with the ask for more money to pursue AGI is troubling.
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23 Oct 2023
Dragons... Robotic dragons.
22 Oct 2023
In Tokyo, engineer Moju Zhao has developed a transformative drone, named DRAGON, that can change its shape mid-flight to navigate tight spaces.
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20 Oct 2023
Uhhhhhhhh
20 Oct 2023
BREAKING: Cybertruck seen on the highway potentially gone through bullet proof testing 📐👽🤯
Seen by member of the club.
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18 Oct 2023
GPT-based games everybody. Imagine how good old school MUDs could be with this tech.
14 Oct 2023
On THE #AI Bot Show episode 10, @bmackay shows off a 'Gladiator Fight Simulator' he wrote in C# youtu.be/e2c4CEncgnw using many useful tools for developing GPT API apps.
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13 Sep 2023
Generating terrible songs with AI is easy.
Putting together something a pro musician wants to work with is something else entirely.
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Brian MacKay retweeted
31 Aug 2023
Not all large language models become chatbots!
@bmackay talks on DotNetRocks at dotnetrocks.com/details/1861 about implementations of large language models within applications that help with the summarization and aggregation of language in your application!
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