Dev: music was slop long before AI — Spotify was already full of formulaic sameness
cocktailpeanut · x · 2026-09-20
Developer cocktailpeanut pushes back on "AI is ruining music": in his experience, music became slop long before AI, with Spotify already flooded by songs made in the same DAWs, following identical formulas for hooks, structure and production. Rather than bashing AI or getting nostalgic, he argues creators should use the new tech to make something genuinely novel.
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