erikschoster

OK. Obviously the use-case has changed.

Consider a random example of fair use: print an excerpt of this three panel comic you would like to discuss.

Does building a business around the automation of fair use constitute fair use? I would say no.

I think you're right, and we've been training ourselves for the shortest path of least resistance for quite a while while kidding ourselves that we're able to somehow preserve the result as worthwhile. Before I ever tried using LLMs for search I had already been training myself for years to offload my thinking to a quick web search and a skim of some plausible result served up.

Arguably things like Cliff's Notes and "for dummies" books were sating this impulse before that, I wouldn't be surprised if the line can be traced back further.

Since dropping LLMs altogether I've made the connection to the impulse for a superficial jump to the conclusion just by noticing how I use web search, or feverishly scan some text to get to the point.

Theoretically I studied critical thinking and have learned decades ago how to recognize when this is OK and when it's a superficial placation of some addiction to closing the book on a subject or micro-subject... but boy whatever good instincts I might have developed back then have significantly eroded over time. Trying to reclaim that again is pretty humbling.

lol no someone else did that while i was drawing it. thanks :)

This is fun, I tried to draw a flower but it sucks.

I guess this is a boring and predictable thing to say, but I miss seeing a project like this and being excited about it. Instead I looked at the codebase, see that it seems LLM-generated and assume it hasn't had much thought or care put into it, so I'm not really motivated to even try it out. Sorry. :-/

I won't harp on you too much for submitting yet another vibe-coded project. What I like about this is that the source code is fairly readable and small. Have the LLM walk you through it piece-by-piece if you haven't already.

> HERTZ is a web-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) utility designed for instant vocal polishing.

I appreciate you have aspirations for the project beyond its current form, but this isn't an accurate description of what it is now. It:

- Uses wavesurfer + the wavesurfer regions plugin to display a waveform and allow a subsection of the uploaded audio to be selected

- Loads the uploaded audio into a buffer with the web audio API's decodeAudioData and then cuts the selected region out of it

- Applies a compression to the selection with the web audio API using hard-coded values (based on a screenshot you gave the LLM apparently according to the comment in the source)

- Normalizes the audio with the web audio API

- Encodes the audio as a WAV and then feeds that to ffmpeg to convert it to an mp3 for download

It seems complete for your use case, to me. You might consider asking the LLM to reword the readme and present it as a tool that applies these compression and normalization settings to a section of an audio file in the browser:

  // 1. SETTINGS FROM YOUR SCREENSHOTS
  const COMPRESSOR_OPTS = {
      threshold: -20.0,
      ratio: 3.1,
      knee: 5.0,
      attack: 0.03,
      release: 0.1,
  };
  
  const NORMALIZE_TARGET_DB = -3.0;

It doesn't make a lot of sense as the basis for a web-based DAW right now. I like that you tried to keep it simple and small, though. Even so, you could improve readability by making this all a single HTML file since it's so small. As a learning exercise, you could try doing that yourself without the LLM. It would be a good way to get to know your project.