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“They're going to allow vibe coders to effectively write their own firmware”

Rhett Shull, at 10:05 of “I Think AI Just Killed The Plugin Industry” on Rhett Shull’s channel.

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  1. 9:49 And in fact, we're already seeing this. Last week, Behringer announced the Kik, which is $150 clone of an older Akai sampler unit. And normally this would be a relatively minor blip in the news cycle.
  2. 10:02 Behringer launches a new budget Groovebox. Okay, cool.
  3. 10:05 But what's interesting about this is from the jump, they have announced that they are embracing the open source approach. They're going to allow vibe coders to effectively write their own firmware
  4. 10:18 for this Groovebox from the start. And not to be left behind, Akai immediately responded with their new sample key that's supposedly going to come out in the next few weeks or so, effectively saying
  5. 10:30 the same thing because they kind of have to. I think this is now the new normal.

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