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Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by franky47 »

I used to do that exact job 10 years ago (without AI, obviously). I figure that career would be very different now.

There was something exciting about sleuthing out how those old machines worked: we used a black box approach, sending in test samples, recording the output, and comparing against the digital algorithm’s output. Trial and error, slowly building a sense of what sort of filter or harmonics could bend a waveform one way or another.

I feel like some of this is going to be lost to prompting, the same way hand-tool woodworking has been lost to power tools.

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by dubeye »

awesome, in 2025 I made a few apps for my small business that I have spent hours trawling the web looking for, and I have little coding skills.

Sometimes it feels like I'm living in a different world, reading the scepticism on here about AI.

I'm sure there enterprise cases where it doesn't make sense, but for the your everyday business owner it's amazing what can be done.

maybe it's a failure of imagination but I can't imagine a world where this doesn't impact enterprise in short order

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by hatefulheart »

dubeye wrote: post #22

awesome, in 2025 I made a few apps for my small business that I have spent hours trawling the web looking for, and I have little coding skills. Sometimes it feels like I'm living in a different world, reading the scepticism on here about AI. I'm sure there enterprise cases where it doesn't make sense, but for the your everyday business owner it's amazing what can be done. maybe it's a failure of imagination but I can…

With all due respect you are living in a different world. Not in a bad way, it’s just you haven’t experienced what maintenance on a large complicated code base is like.

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by rmnclmnt »

franky47 wrote: post #21

I used to do that exact job 10 years ago (without AI, obviously). I figure that career would be very different now. There was something exciting about sleuthing out how those old machines worked: we used a black box approach, sending in test samples, recording the output, and comparing against the digital algorithm’s output. Trial and error, slowly building a sense of what sort of filter or harmonics could bend a wav…

I wonder if we could then have released the *stressor in a few months then...

Re: Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

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Post by kaffekaka »

hatefulheart wrote: post #25
dubeye wrote: post #22

awesome, in 2025 I made a few apps for my small business that I have spent hours trawling the web looking for, and I have little coding skills. Sometimes it feels like I'm living in a different world, reading the scepticism on here about AI. I'm sure there enterprise cases where it doesn't make sense, but for the your everyday business owner it's amazing what can be done. maybe it's a failure of imagination but I can…

With all due respect you are living in a different world. Not in a bad way, it’s just you haven’t experienced what maintenance on a large complicated code base is like.

Different worlds yes, but they both exist.
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