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.

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.

When POLAAR commissioned me to create the album cover for Soreab, a UK techno producer, they asked for something in the spirit of my "Turntable Anatomy" series (a pen plotted series of generative modular grid art). But this project would take me somewhere else: into the intersection of AI glitchy hallucinations, contemporary dance theory, and the physical permanence of ink on paper.

With its latest release, cursor (the AI code editor) allows the user to set multiple rules in the .cursor/rules directory. The agent will then use the most appropriate rules for the task you are asking the AI. The cursor.directory website list amazing prompts you can use.