I'm mostly really enjoying it! While it's not my main job, I've always been a tool builder for teams I work on, so if I see a place where a little UI or utility would make people's life easier, I'd usually hack something together in a few hours and evolve it over time if people find it useful. That process is easily 10x faster than before.
My main work is training Text-to-Speech models, and the friction of experimenting with model features or ideas has dropped massively. If I want to add a new CFG implementation, or conditioning vector, 90% of the time Opus can one-shot it. It generally does a good job of making the model, inference and training changes simultaneously so everything plays nicely. Haven't had any major regressions or missed bugs yet, but we'll see!
The downside is reviewing shitty PRs where it's clear the engineer doesn't fully understand what they're doing, and just a general attitude of "I dunno, Claude suggested it" that's getting pretty exhausting.
All the main music services operate on the 70/30 split in favour of the license holders.
If you pay $10 for a subscription, $7 gets put into a pool with all the subscription and ad revenue for your country, and that gets divided out proportionally based on the playback in your country. If Taylor Swift gets 10% of the plays in the US, she gets 10% of the pot.
If you're of the opinion that pirating artists' music is better for them in the long run, that's cool. But at least be informed on what the business model you're complaining about actually entails.
My main work is training Text-to-Speech models, and the friction of experimenting with model features or ideas has dropped massively. If I want to add a new CFG implementation, or conditioning vector, 90% of the time Opus can one-shot it. It generally does a good job of making the model, inference and training changes simultaneously so everything plays nicely. Haven't had any major regressions or missed bugs yet, but we'll see!
The downside is reviewing shitty PRs where it's clear the engineer doesn't fully understand what they're doing, and just a general attitude of "I dunno, Claude suggested it" that's getting pretty exhausting.