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What's up everybody — Beau here.
Episode 41 is a no-guest one — just me and Becky sitting down to hash out some stuff we'd been talking about off mic for a while. No interview to build this one around, so the newsletter's a little different this week too. The full episode's up now on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts if you want the whole conversation, but here's where I want to expand on a few of the threads.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/Q9S4Ykek-HY?si=qcUj5cm0iP5ySeE4
AI as a Tool, Not a Crutch
The idea we kept circling back to is one I've heard social media guru Gary Vee describe as a barbell — AI on one end handling the admin and business side, and the analog, human side of making art on the other, with less and less in the middle. I think that's right, and I think it's going to balance itself out the way every disruptive technology eventually does. Use it for your spreadsheets, your scheduling, your business admin. Don't use it for the actual art. The second you lean on it for the part that's supposed to be you, it stops being yours.
Becky had a real example land in her lap recently while working — a booking email came through for X-Ray (a live music venue in Milwaukee) that was so obviously AI-generated it actually cost the sender the gig. It was telling the booker of the club how to do his job based on a prompt, and got the advice wrong in the process. That's the crutch version. Fundamentals still matter more than the tool, whatever the tool is.