Can I ask what the scope of AI assistance used in the development of these plugins is?
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Sure. It does lots of research, especially for math papers and things that I'm unable to find like repair manuals, published numbers, things like that. It explains the math / algorithms to me (for example, I don't know calculus very well at all, so I need handholding). In terms of "how much of the code does it write," I don't have a percentage for you but generally if it suggest something to add to the testing suite I will allow it and if it wants to make changes based on a code review I will allow it. For bug hunting or "why doesn't this sound right" analysis, I make audio files (say, a guitar recording or a drum loop) and have the AI analyze deltas so it can give me information about what might or might not be happening. There are only two people working on this, so we let the AI keep track of roadmaps (like if I get an issue on Github or a comment in this forum, I might say something like "don't let me do a release without addressing this: [comment]" or "remind me that I wanted to research such and such." I'm a software engineer as my day job, but I'm sure that I would not have been able to do this without AI. I understand that AI can be a touchy subject and that's why I chose to not charge anything. There are a couple of other audio-related things that I haven't put out yet that are almost entirely AI from start to finish.
I hope that helps and doesn't turn you off too much.
Thanks! It does help, my misgivings about AI are strictly related to quality control and the potential for claude to fabricate information during benchmarks, as opposed to some sort of reactionary distaste for it. So I was genuinely just curious about your process and how pitfalls are avoided. I do think that there's currently a flood of plugins that are not particularly useful due to AI allowing people to rapidly ship (and charge money for) products that the developers themselves do not really understand, which can be a problem.
But you have put a disclaimer, the plugins are free, and it is clear there is a vision behind these that differentiates them from the frankly low-effort compressors and mojo machines that are being put out lately. Most importantly though it actually sounds good and is clearly standing up to A/B testing on my end.