u/drew4drew

I’ve been using Suno maybe about a year and, though I’ve some complaints here and there, overall I’ve been a huge supporter and fan, and have sent lots of friends and people I know to go check it out.

The recent(ish?) change that now blocks playback of shared songs without an account feels like a huge misstep for Suno, and for me it’s taken a lot of the joy out of using the service.

I know a lot of services and social media do this sort of thing, but most of those that do are much more ubiquitous and more general purpose — and much more likely to have an arbitrary recipient already have an account.

I used to feel excited to share a song with people I know — people who might not be into suno or ai or even songs necessarily. But now there’s no point in doing it. The majority of people I know don’t have an account and aren’t going to get one just to hear whatever I’ve sent them.

For suno too I think it’s a mistake. I’m sure somebody is looking at analytics and is pleased to see how many sign ups they’re generating, but those will be the weakest signups and some number like 20X that will just never give it a second thought.

I really hope they change this back, and soon.

Open to suggestions of good alternative services or private models. Though honestly private models have the same sharing problem in that you either need to send an audio file or host one somewhere.

Apple announced their consumer leasing program and, besides phones they also show lease options for macbooks, mac minis, and mac studios.

So far I’ve talked to several people with STELLAR credit (FICO 800+, $600k in the bank, never missed a payment) who were shown $235/mo through Apple Upgrade via Klarna — 100% of them DENIED and all Klarna shows is a 1000 credit line. One person with credit monitoring said that they never even were prompted to enter their SSN and there was no credit check actually done.

So if this is NOT bait-and-switch, then it’s seriously broken.

Is it just me or is claude code with opus 4.8 a little bit of an butthead?

I think it’s very effective getting things done but am finding I fairly strongly dislike it, in the way one might dislike an annoying person.

Instead of just showing suggestions or ideas on a solution it gets actively combative about them — literally refusing to write the thing the way I instructed. Or even just saying it’s not going to write X until I performance test such and such a thing. those were today.

A couple days ago it refused to give me feedback on some architectural thoughts, instead saying that “we aren’t going to waste time on that”, insisting we go another direction.