I’ve been doing a lot of experiments and spikes using my local lab running a local LLM (on a 5060 with 16gb) using my own AI harness (written by hand in a language other than python / javascript thank you very much), and I decided to put it through it’s paces and let it try to code something itself.
I am close to releasing an old school digital audio workstation (called a Tracker) for Mac and the Steam Deck. It’s really fun, but if you are not used to trackers you’d probably find it impossible to use. To hopefully mitigate that learning curve, I decided to make some videos showing it’s usage.
I wanted to have the key presses visible in the video to make it clear what I was doing as I made a song. To my surprise, there is no way to just display key presses on macOS. I had a look around for an application to do display my keystrokes (like KeyCastr), but then I started thinking… why would I purposefully install a key logger on my own system? Sure some of them were open source, but I really didn’t feel like auditing the code.
This seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out what I have been saying to a number of people, vibe coding is perfect for those little apps and workflows that you use internally. And it seemed like a good test to see if my little local model could pull it off.
Spoiler alert it worked: