Insanely Generative
by Paul Henry Smith
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About this podcast
Exploring tools, methods, ideas, and culture at the beginning of the AI boom from the center of San Francisco. And using these tools to preserve how we embrace the moment.
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- Everyone Can Build Everything · 32 minWhat happens to UX design when the people who used to approve the designs can make their own? AI may be fundamentally changing what it means to be a product designer. Looking at…
- I Am Going to Make 1,000 Symphonies Before They Take Away My Toy · 16 minWhat happens when you try to write one thousand symphonies in a month—not with pencil and paper, but with an AI that's about to be euthanized? In this episode, we descend into…
- Liberating Taste: What Comes After Ranch? · 18 minYou’re not going to believe this, but this is absolutely going to be possible—or, depending on how demanding you are about the meaning of “possible,” already is—with current…
- The End of Gee-Whiz AI · 38 minAI can now make almost anything. A fake blockbuster trailer. A fake symphony. A fake oil painting. A fake novel. A fake proof. The first reaction is obvious: look what we can do…
- The Great AI Sin · 20 minFor the past four years, we’ve been told two stories about AI. The first is that people hate it. The second is that everyone keeps using it. Both stories can’t be the whole…
- I Gave a Talk at a College About AI—and No One Booed · 14 minWhat if students aren’t booing AI because they hate technology, but because they can smell the difference between a tool that helps them think and a machine that helps someone…
- So, you want to save music? · 6 minWell, let me start by saying this… I get you. I actually do. All you anti-AI music people, you’re not crazy. You’re not villains. You’re not sitting there like some cartoon bad…
- Across the Bay · 15 minA man considers what it means to move through the world without leaving a mark—and whether recognition, when it comes, is enough. Spare, reflective, and unsettling. Copyright ©…
- Panicking Over Music—Our Oldest Tradition? · 23 minThis is a paraphrased transcript. Listen to get the full experience Jordan [Orchestral overture] Imagine a new technology drops today, right? And the government immediately moves…
- You’ve Vibe Coded an Amblongus Pie! Now What? · 7 minWhat to do when you create an Amblongus pie while using an AI coding assistant, or vibe coding. Get full access to The Generative Gazette at…
- The Missing Layer in the AI Stack · 21 minOver the past few years the AI ecosystem has been assembling itself into layers. First came the models. Then came the tools that allow those models to interact with the world…
- Inhuman Music? · 23 minWhat if the “inhuman” side of music has always been there—quietly shaping the songs you love? This episode pulls back the curtain, and the view is stranger, funnier, and more…
- Designers vs. The Machines · 22 minI want you to picture a very specific person, because this is not a philosophical debate. This is a career situation. You’re a UX designer. You love Figma. You love the feeling…
- Trusting AI · 6 minWe rely on systems every day without thinking about them—until the moment arrives when a decision can’t be undone. In those moments, something subtle but essential comes into…
- We Tried Voice AI for Speed. We Got Something Much More Interesting. · 10 minWhat started as a simple attempt to speed up intake turned into a deeper experiment in how ideas form, gain momentum, and survive handoff between people. This conversation digs…
- The Pickle Has Landed. · 7 minToday’s episode starts with a shiny new announcement you may have already seen: Pickle, calling itself “the computer for your soul.” From there, things get interesting. We…
- Want to Erase an Entire Year of AI Energy Use? Drive Just One Mile Less. · 7 minAI is melting the planet. Everyone knows this. Everyone says it. In this episode, Alex makes the mistake of checking the math and accidentally detonates a very popular moral…
- Do Not Vibe-code a Startup This Weekend. · 14 minThis week’s episode is a cautionary tale dressed in elastic Thanksgiving pants. It begins with a three-day weekend and a single, terrible idea: “What if I became a startup…
- Have You Met the Mind of AI? · 14 minWe’ve always imagined a mind behind the words we read. But what happens when that imagined mind speaks back? In this episode, Paul Henry Smith explores the quiet revolution…
- AI is a Bubble. So what? · 9 minIn this episode, I confess an embarrassing childhood habit involving a garden hose, a stolen ounce of dish soap, and a foam tsunami that terrified both my dog and my mother—an…
