39:55 - "Tuning in to themselves" Geeem!👏 AI helps artists tune into themselves... Like Rick with his Artists!
the hermeneutics of experience - our memory is a constant reconstruction of the past, it isn't the actual past as it existed. we live in a present we can't hold onto and is always passing us by. the future doesn't yet exist but can come into being and we can shape it.
Although, by the end of the interview, I felt Rick Rubin was more-or-less using his newly found meme fame and trying to extend it without actually doing any vibe coding himself. But, the fundamentals of what he's saying are sound. I'm just a nobody working on my own game and my experience is exactly how Rick describes it. It's going against what everyone else is doing, finding a tool and using it to my own benefit (it doesn't matter if you don't agree with me, it's my reality type thing). It's looking within myself and believing that, now with this new tool in my possession, I can achieve the dream I always wanted to achieve (make video games). And, it's just working. I can't explain it. I'm not just making a simple game in an hour. This is days and weeks of slowly putting things together. And it works, every step of the way. You can complain and say that you can write the code more efficiently or that AI doesn't always come up with the most perfect solution, but if it works - IT WORKS. And, so far, during my development, everything is coming together nicely. The key takeaway from Rick was in how we communicate with the AI. This notion of good prompting cannot be understated. Anyway, to all who are embracing AI to code, I'm sure you're feeling it like I am. What an incredible time to be alive!
I love Rick. His book on THE CREATIVE ACT A WAY OF BEING is brilliant.
One of my favorite producers. 99 Problems. Vibe coding is an interesting concept. Marc, I read that manifesto. “We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.” 🤔… I think you’re right. Technology doesn’t do any of that. PEOPLE use technology to do those things. I also agree the future business model is individual. I’ve been saying that. It’s about collaboration though. Let’s collab on some things. Reach out if y’all feel so inclined.
PHP was the punk rock of coding Punk Hypertext Preprocessor Literally in the name
Wow, what a crossover. I was surprised Rick was behind so many different amazing music bands. And now he's embodying the spirit of vibe coding... He never ceases to amaze
Let Mark Ben and Rick speak, others are laboring their point and just filling time
This is fantastic! I'm sure Vibe Coding will help us meet our unrealistic Sprint commits, bad Story Specs, etc....
25:05 - Fascinating!!! What an amazing interview!Loved this section on "Collective Conciousness". Micheal Jackson thought that whenever he had a creative idea, Prince will receive the same one... Fascinating! Aloha from Hawaii! 🤙
It is such a great metaphor. Even the virtuosos are having the exact same response. "It isn't REAL music! One must study the viola for 15 years in order to make REAL music"
I agree that curation is really whats cool. "Punk." Sampling, remixing, is a recognition that there are themes and ideas, almost like primary colors, that are the basic archetypal truths, yet we create and live in nuance. We want variety and the only variety we can get is fractional remixing of what has always existed. Also the vibe coding promises democratization, just as the printing press allowed. Personally I love creating ai art, playing with various itterations, restyling and the various ways it can be used as an art tool. Like anything, tools can be used brilliantly or stupidly. Every painter is not expected to make their own brushes or their own pigments to be considered a "real" artist. However I do agree that artists whose work is used to train models should be credited, and with metadata and blockchain, they could receive royalties and their contribution tied to every piece created.
I'm just a few minutes into this interview, so I may not fully understand everything yet — but what I’m seeing is already amazing from this perspective: It’s a true fusion of the product and software worlds. One of the great things about software is that you can launch a first version quickly and continue to iterate over time. That’s very different from traditional media like books or music, where once something is released, it’s usually final — locked in time. A few years ago, some artists started editing their Spotify tracks and LPs after release. That idea of a dynamic release is so cool. What I see now with Rubin's book is next-level: it gets released, but the content can still change — based on the user, or imagine even triggered by events like the weather, current news, or future decisions etc. That’s revolutionary. A truly dynamic piece of art. Thx!
i love the sound quality of rick's voice as he sits outside with wind in his hair
Hard for this to not feel like spam. Rick feels like AI, lol.
Heres what I take from this. Rick Rubin is one of the first actual artists embracing AI for what it is. And the techies are like what language is this?
Been waiting for what Rick Rubin will say about all this. Great stuff. Funny enough I've been transforming Lao Tzu's Tao in another way, it was some months ago. I've never published it. Maybe now is the time
It’s really interesting to see how divisive vibe coding can be.
.... first time i an genuinely confused on if i am watching AI or not
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