I spend too much of my waking hours questioning the impact of AI on the software industry. Currently, I’m playing with the thought experiment that, just like coffee, software is a commodity. What I find interesting in that framing is that, unlike coffee, the software price equilibrium was defined by a scarcity in production capabilities. The main driver of this production scarcity was the high capital requirements needed to produce and maintain software.

100% AI generated (yes, both music and video) music video by Sheldrick.

From @davidsheldrick instagram post:

Estate of the Nation visualises 90s & 00s British chav & street culture reclaiming the corridors of power. Shifting the dynamic to a new kind of sovereignty where the high street rules the House.

From a technical standpoint, this is an exercise in total AI approach, every element is AI-generated. The music & lyrics are made in Suno, the vocal stem is then stripped to use as a modality to drive the lip-sync and facial performance.

Crab mentality describes the behavior where members of a group will sabotage or pull down anyone who achieves success or tries to improve their situation.

The term comes from how crabs in a bucket will pull down any crab trying to escape, ensuring they all remain trapped together.

I gave Claude Code access to my pen plotter. Not directly. I was the interface between the two machines. Claude Code produced SVG files that I plotted with my pen plotter. With my smartphone I captured photos that I pasted into the Claude Code session, asking Claude what it thought about the pictures. In total, Claude produced and signed 2 drawings. It also wrote a post about what it learned during the session.

This is a legendary Amiga demo from 1992 that won first place at The Party 92. It revolutionized the scene by combining vector animations of dancing silhouettes with techno/happy hardcore music.