Keep Your Hands on the Wheel S2E2

AI has changed the way I take notes, write music, build websites, develop ideas, and even communicate. Voice dictation has become a huge part of that process, and tools like ChatGPT and Codex have made it possible to turn years of scattered thoughts, observations, and creative work into something much more useful.

But there is a catch.

The easier these tools make things, the easier it becomes to settle for “good enough.” In this episode, I talk about noticing that tendency in my own work, the balance between quality and quantity, AI slop, raising my own creative standards, and why keeping good notes and history can actually make AI collaboration better rather than lazier.

I also get into songwriting, building the backstories behind songs like Covered in Silence, and how some of these same ideas found their way into the Nebula’s Pulse songs We Found the Switch and The Trial of Intelligence.

AI gives us an extraordinary amount of agency. We can build, create, learn, and explore things that were previously out of reach for most people. My hope is that we use that power to push ourselves farther, not to disengage.

The robots can help. We still need to keep our hands on the wheel.