Rick Rubin: “Ai is the punk rock of programming”

“Every now and then Rick Rubin should be slapped,” said Pete Townshend of the Who recently. And who knows how many think like him, reading the latest statements to which the guru of American music has been left, for some considered a charlatan, for others a genius. Rubin, 8 Grammy Awards won and who knows how many millions of copies sold with the bestsellers of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Run-Dmc, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Johnny Cash, Rage Against The Machine, Shakira and Santana, wrote a book on the phenomenon of “Vibe Coding”, or to give instructions to intelligence. artificial in natural language instead of through the language of programming. And by presenting it, the manufacturer defined artificial intelligence as “the punk rock of programming”.

The book is titled “The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding” and is An interactive book created with the Claude chatbot. According to Rubin, it is a sort of remix of the “Tao Te Ching”, “a teaching of wisdom of 3,000 years old combined with cutting -edge technologies”. The rich volume of Rubin’s observations on artificial intelligence, mixed with Rubin -style teachings (“do not doing, and there is nothing that cannot be done” “).

Rubin spoke of the book during an interview with the microphones of “The Ben & Marc Show”, podcast conducted by investors and businessmen Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreesen. In a decidedly modern example of life that imitates the art that imitates life, Rubin discovered Vibe Coding when an old photo of him became the face of a meme on Vibe Coding. The manufacturer, who worked with anyone, from the same Beastie Boys in Lady Gaga, made it known to see parallelisms Between Vibe Coding and Punk Rock in the way they both give priority to ideas compared to the technique:

In the past, for music, you had to go to the Conservatory and study for years and years. Then, one day, you could have played in a symphonic orchestra. And then, with the advent of punk rock, you could have learned three agreements a day and there was an explosion of bands. Punk rock made music accessible to everyone. My approach to music was punk rock. If you had something to say, you could say it. Specific skills or skills were not needed, if not your idea and your ability to transmit it. And Vibe Coding is the same thing: it’s the coding punk rock.

Rubin, however, is not worried about the resolves that the use of artificial intelligence can have on music:

The reason why we turn to artists, writers or directors is to know their point of view. AI does not have a point of view.