Rov_Scam
18hr ago
I know who Mr. Beast is, in that I recognize the name, but I've never seen any of his content. And content should probably be in scare quotes, since I'm pretty sure that it's all unwatchable filler that goes nowhere.
Rov_Scam
18hr ago
Because it's really hard to predict how the software is going to be used, and it's not something that can be reasoned out. If that were the case, software companies with full UI teams wouldn't still be responding to user suggestions 50 years into the industry's history. Watch some of Tantacrul's videos on music notation software. He's a software developer by trade and a composer by hobby, so he has tried pretty much every major program on the market, and his video on MuseScore a few years ago resulted in him becoming the head of the development team. Music notation software is particularly ripe for this kind of criticism because it's all notoriously difficult to use and people such as myself who occasionally dabble in music have tried pretty much all of the available programs in a desperate attempt to find something that isn't going to piss us off. Highlights from the comments:
Sibelius
I've been using Sibelius Version 1.4 for the past twenty years—really good, though I recently upgraded to pencil and paper!
Finale
I love how like 15% of this video is just figuring out how to change the font from Times New Roman.
Dorico
They can’t complain about the program if they can’t install it.
Muse Score
It looks like an insurance actuary's app. It looks like it's designed to be used by hundreds of gray-cubicle-bound 9-5 composers.
Watch the videos. They're long, but highly entertaining. And keep in mind that he's only scratching the surface with respect to the problems he describes, and they're all either deliberate design choices or the result of being bound by the limitations of the existing codebase. I don't think you can just get an LLM to figure this stuff out.
This article feels like the Chinese equivalent of trying to evaluate the dating marketplace based on "First Dates from Hell" segments on Morning Zoo radio shows.
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