[HN Gopher] Co-designing a sparse music codec with ChatGPT o3
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       Co-designing a sparse music codec with ChatGPT o3
        
       Author : avaku
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-04-27 00:18 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jstanley wrote:
       | For sure programming with AI is a game-changer, and o3 in
       | particular is really quite good at maths.
       | 
       | I've tried getting ChatGPT to write blog posts for me as well,
       | but it seems to struggle with knowing which things are important
       | and which things aren't. You need to apply a lot of editorial
       | control.
       | 
       | For example:
       | 
       | > We swapped 3 x 3 windows for 5 x 5, removed global gains then
       | re-introduced per-occurrence magnitudes, and replaced hard
       | clamping with bilinear interpolation so gradients would flow
       | 
       | What does this stuff mean? Why mention these very specific
       | details in the middle of a very high-level overview?
       | 
       | Obviously ChatGPT said this because there was a part in your
       | conversation where you decided to make these changes, but without
       | any of the context behind that it is meaningless to readers.
        
         | ninininino wrote:
         | > Obviously ChatGPT said this because there was a part in your
         | conversation where you decided to make these changes, but
         | without any of the context behind that it is meaningless to
         | readers.
         | 
         | Have you considered you might not be the target audience the
         | author wrote this for?
        
       | cypherpunks01 wrote:
       | I've had similar breakthroughs in the pet-project department
       | lately too.
       | 
       | Normally I'd never write small projects in languages I'm
       | unfamiliar with, or learn how to do Android app development just
       | to fix a minor issue with an open-source app, but pair coding
       | with claude code has made these things much more achievable. Vibe
       | coding quickly goes off the rails towards garbage outputs of
       | course, but I've found actually reviewing and guiding the quality
       | of the work piece-by-piece can work with the right effort.
       | 
       | There was a very cool small hardware project posted here some
       | time ago, I forgot what it was, where the creator admitted that
       | he had almost no prior experience doing hardware design/build,
       | but pushed through it solo with LLM assistance far enough to get
       | some pretty impressive outputs.
        
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