Receipt
“Now, I didn't name it Squish Comp. Claude did.”
Rhett Shull, at 2:54 of “I Think AI Just Killed The Plugin Industry” on Rhett Shull’s channel.
Around it
- 2:37 build a plugin for me based off of my favorite compressor plugin that I bought years and years ago. So I pulled up Claude Code after installing REA and I prompted it. Take a look at this plugin,
- 2:48 learn what you can about it, and build a clone for me that I can use in my DAW
- 2:54 and my DAW of choice. About half an hour later, and a few dollars in token spend with a little bit of input from me here and there, I ended up with this, what's called Squish Comp. Now, I didn't name
- 3:05 it Squish Comp. Claude did. But this is, for all intents and purposes, a clone of my favorite compressor plugin in terms of its sound and its functionality. Now, I want to point out here that when I
- 3:17 was going through the vibe coding process, Claude did point out after it decompiled
- 3:23 the plugin software and told me that it was not going to copy the code, because that is copywritten. And so, effectively, what I have here is a functional and sonic clone of the plugin, but the
In the paper
- The Big Story, week ending 6 November 2026