u/SirSingle4731

Curious what people here are actually building with AI beyond the usual ChatGPT/content-generation stuff.

Has anyone made something (a tool, an automation, an agent, a coding project, whatever) that's genuinely useful in your day-to-day? Not looking for hype, just real stuff: what you built, what it does, what you used to build it.

Especially interested in anything that saved real time, made money, or replaced a task you used to do by hand. Did it actually work as well as you hoped, or was it more trouble than it was worth?

I don’t spend much time on the internet, but apparently, reading books is now considered performative.

There was a party at my place a while ago, and this girl was talking to me while looking around my room. She noticed a copy of The Metamorphosis on my desk and said, “That’s really performative.”

She might have said that because it’s a classic and a fairly common book. But I asked her what made her think that way, and she explained that reading in public has apparently become a kind of performance.

I barely go out, but ever since that evening, this thought occasionally pops into my head whenever I’m reading a book in a café, a park, or while travelling: Do people think I’m being performative?

The thought usually goes away after a while, but it has become a surprisingly consistent thing now.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? Do you ever find yourself thinking about how your perfectly normal interest might be perceived by other people?

It’s been more than a decade since I started making music, and music theory is something I’ve always been too lazy to properly learn. Somehow, though, I still manage to make decent chord progressions and catchy stuff by throwing my hands and feeling through the melody.

But when it comes to writing chords and layering them, I feel like I suck at it. I’d really like to learn how to use accidental notes more effectively because I love the way they sound and feel.

For those of you who are good at this, what advice would you give me to improve? And if you’re in the same category as me and don’t rely heavily on music theory, how do you approach making music?