What a week. I've just released my first single - properly released, on streaming platforms and everything. It started as a bit of exploration into AI music generation and ended with me hitting publish on something I'm genuinely proud of.
The thing is, everyone keeps saying "well, anyone can make music with Suno now." And look, that's technically true. But here's what they don't tell you - turning that into something that's actually yours takes work. Proper work.
The reality of AI music production
I spent days on this. Hundreds of tweaks and refinements. Hundreds of persona adjustments in the AI. Back and forth between Suno and my DAW, Studio One, trying to get it to sound right. It wasn't just "prompt and done" - it was more like having a very talented but slightly unpredictable collaborator who needed constant direction.
Spinning plates
Meanwhile, I've been juggling three other projects. There's a bespoke POS platform I'm building (which is brilliant fun, by the way), a personal trainer website that's nearly over the line with its own CMS backend, and we've just launched a WordPress site for an estate agent. My AI agent Serene has been helping map out the platform architecture for the POS system, and we're about to start building in Vercel.
Honestly, without AI assistance, I'd probably be managing one project at a time and feeling stressed about it. Instead, I'm spinning multiple plates and actually enjoying the process.
The fear is real
But here's what's been on my mind - the fear around AI is real. I get it. I had those same thoughts a few years back when it became clear which direction this was all heading. The "oh my god, what do I do with this" moment.
The power AI gives me to manage multiple projects and deploy MVPs at speed with built-in scalability is incredible. But I think it's crept up on people. They're paralysed by the possibilities rather than energised by them.
Finding your use cases
What's helped me is finding my use cases. Not trying to AI-ify everything, but documenting my everyday work and figuring out what can be AI-driven and where I sit comfortably as the human in the loop. With the music, I was the creative director. With the development projects, I'm the architect and problem-solver. The AI handles the grunt work and offers suggestions.
That said, I'm still learning. Each project teaches me something new about where AI helps and where it gets in the way. The estate agent's WordPress site? Mostly traditional development. The POS platform? AI is helping with architecture and boilerplate code. The music? AI generated, but human-curated and refined.
I suppose the question isn't whether AI will change how we work - it already has. The question is whether we'll let fear keep us from finding our place in that new reality, or whether we'll start experimenting and see where we fit.