Software products are relationships
A software product is a relationship. Understanding users, giving them a reason to care and making a living are part of the same work.
Lynn Cole / Music
Music
Songs, releases, and experiments in sound.
AI work across software, art, film, and music
A dated perspective on AI work across software, commercial art, filmmaking and music, including my own job interviews.
Music models, control settings, and the Harmonifiddle
Musical failure states, control settings, impossible instruments, and why I started building my own music pipelines.
Night Signal: production notes
A paranormal radio station, aliens who love pop music, and the music, creatures, sets and storytelling behind Night Signal.
Begin Again: a short film made in four days
Recursive poetry becomes a song, then a short film about evil robots and a software team that solves problems with meetings.
We have had the vibe-coding argument before
We have heard the vibe-coding argument before—in digital art, visual programming, web design, music and animation. Lowering the barrier changes who gets to try.
When an AI-generated voice becomes an instrument
A generated voice can melt directly into an instrument. I enjoy the strange precision of that effect, even when it complicates a live-performance illusion.
Predictions for 2026, written in December 2025
My predictions for 2026, written in December 2025: small models, edge compute, changing tooling, creative technology and the structures of power.
GhostTown’s synthetic podcast generator
GhostTown’s podcast generator turns a social simulation into editable scripts, multi-voice audio and recurring stories people can follow.
When a model calls the task chaotic
When a model calls a task chaotic, it may be recognizing a different kind of signal. I explore that response through Dada, metaphor and primordial chaos.
What noise painting is trying to do
Noise painting uses hand-crafted adversarial inputs and incongruent prompts to push diffusion into unexpected visual territory.
Teaching the coding system what good means
Tell a coding system what good means: your architecture, standards, metaphors, file boundaries and expectations for documentation.