The Aboard Podcast · AI Builders · August 2026
Paul has been showing Rich a music generator he vibe-coded over the summer, including one that follows the rules of preludes and fugues. He rode his bike around listening to its output, then went home and put on Keith Jarrett's recording instead. He adds that he is not saying nothing matters except good art.
yeah so i programmed the rules of preludes and fugues into this box and i rode my bike around i listened to it for a long time some of them are pretty good they sounded kind of pretty they didn't kind of go anywhere and i went home you like keith jarrett right you love him
i love keith jarrett
okay keith jarret is fascinating pianist he plays both jazz and classical at an extremely high level yeah and i just went to his version of box well-tempered clavier and i just listened to it top to bottom and it was a million times better than anything the computer could make yeah and it was a human being and it was a moment of connection and now i'm telling you about it on the podcast and i i don't want to be like oh my god none of this really matters except for good art that's not what i'm saying yeah i'm just saying like the brain and the soul kind of goes in a direction and you're gonna people are not gonna change after thousands of years just because the robot can whistle a happy tune
it's playing out yeah like we can see it uh people are drifting back to other ways to connect of other ways to connect this is very cool it's an i think it's it's a it's an artifact of your journey which i think is what's most fascinating i brought it
into our internal product management tool which is called cadence the company's gonna eyeball it and then we'll put it out by the time this podcast is i
think people will play with it and i think oh i'd love to see people build on it i think it would be very cool