Adrian Holovaty
@holovaty.com
Web developer, guitarist, cocreator of Django web framework, tinkerer with digital sheet music encoding and rendering. Currently making Soundslice.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
I’ve been on a few podcasts in the last month. Four interviews, four separate topics: ChatGPT hallucination, Django's 20th birthday, Soundslice and my latest EP.
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Four podcast interviews | Holovaty.com
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September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I’ve been on a few podcasts in the last month. Four interviews, four separate topics: ChatGPT hallucination, Django's 20th birthday, Soundslice and my latest EP.
holovaty.com/writing/podc...
holovaty.com/writing/podc...
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Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
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welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented
ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It
Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented
This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
Let's Go To Heaven In My Car: A Tribute To Brian Wilson [AI]
YouTube video by Dae Lims
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July 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...
Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com
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July 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.
Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.
I'm trying a new thing: here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the multitracks in one of my recent EP tunes.
Behind the scenes: "Rock And Roll Roger"
YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty
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May 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'm trying a new thing: here's a behind-the-scenes peek at the multitracks in one of my recent EP tunes.
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At Soundslice we've launched a lot of great new stuff specifically for drummers and percussionists. Percussion maps, auto-generated percussion legends, better synth playback and more.
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
Tons of percussion improvements | Soundslice product updates
We’ve spent the last several weeks making lots of Soundslice improvements specifically for percussion.
www.soundslice.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
At Soundslice we've launched a lot of great new stuff specifically for drummers and percussionists. Percussion maps, auto-generated percussion legends, better synth playback and more.
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
www.soundslice.com/blog/288/ton...
Hey, it's my first YouTube video in more than a year. Here's my tune "Senseless Swing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
Senseless Swing - Adrian Holovaty
YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty
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April 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Hey, it's my first YouTube video in more than a year. Here's my tune "Senseless Swing."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJi...
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Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
RADDLE
The daily word transformation game
raddle.quest
March 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Announcing RADDLE, my new word transformation game.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
raddle.quest
It’s a twist on conventional word ladders — instead of changing one letter at each step, you’re changing the entire word based on a clue. But it’s up to you to determine which clue to use.
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I had the pleasure of creating another album cover for Adrian Holovaty 🍰
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
February 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I had the pleasure of creating another album cover for Adrian Holovaty 🍰
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
My new EP is out today! It's called Layer Cake and has five original tunes.
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
Layer Cake by Adrian Holovaty
Five original gypsy-jazz tunes.
www.holovaty.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
My new EP is out today! It's called Layer Cake and has five original tunes.
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
www.holovaty.com/layer-cake/
It's my take on modern gypsy jazz, trying to bring fresh colors and textures into the scene. Give it a listen next time you have 13 minutes. :)
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Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.
January 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Absolutely unbelievable ad in the community theater playbill.
Hadn't heard this reported elsewhere: evidently Ray Brown's upright bass got destroyed in the LA wildfires. :-(
www.talkbass.com/threads/r-i-...
www.talkbass.com/threads/r-i-...
Double Bass - R.I.P. Ray Brown's Silvestre
A credible source mentioned that the great John Clayton lost his home in the Southern California fires, and the legendary Ray Brown bass is gone.
www.talkbass.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Hadn't heard this reported elsewhere: evidently Ray Brown's upright bass got destroyed in the LA wildfires. :-(
www.talkbass.com/threads/r-i-...
www.talkbass.com/threads/r-i-...
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These people are your enemies
January 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
These people are your enemies
Here's what I've been working on — lots of new Soundslice improvements:
www.soundslice.com/blog/282/new...
www.soundslice.com/blog/282/new...
New features, Dec. 12 | Soundslice product updates
It’s been a while since we posted a proper product update! Here’s how Soundslice has improved in the last two months, grouped by category.
www.soundslice.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Here's what I've been working on — lots of new Soundslice improvements:
www.soundslice.com/blog/282/new...
www.soundslice.com/blog/282/new...