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Agreed- I absolutely would not have been able to solve this problem, even with AI help, without foundational software engineering knowledge!

I asked them to send me a $300 consulting invoice, as they’d already scheduled my work and I might still need their help later.

I am very skeptical about a lot of AI hype but seeing this play out has been somewhat eye opening. And at this stage for me saving $3k is huge!

This is striking to me for a few reasons

- Claude 3.5 couldn’t solve this problem, but 4 could
- It’s my first direct tangible example of AI replacing a paid software engineer
- Maybe I’m next?

Thanks so much! Glad it arrived safely even though it looks like a bite was taken out of the box. Enjoy! Great album choice btw 🎵✨

Worth it to get it on the Tuneshine 🎵✨

It’s looking more tempting than ever!

I’ve thought about moving assembly to Canada or Mexico- I’m fairly certain that would be legal, a lot cheaper in terms of tariffs and likely labor as well. But it would take months to set up and the tariffs are changing too often to take that risk. Plus I like assembling in the US!

Thank you! 🙏🏼

As the maker of a similar product told me last week, “it’s kind of ridiculous to raise prices on an LED box”

The picture is definitely pretty different from last week- with the latest tariffs my costs are creeping right up to the point of no longer being tenable. I got a shipment of parts in right before the >100% tariffs went in to effect and I’m just kind of crossing my fingers that it mellows out.

Glad you’re in to it! 🎵✨ let me know if you have any questions

So Tuneshine now supports streaming services as well as most physical media. Check it out here. www.tuneshine.rocks

But a record doesn’t change on its own- you have to manually put it on. Requiring one more step from your phone isn’t a big deal, and it avoids a whole potential privacy concern related to having a microphone listening and continuously Shazam-ing from your living room.

For streaming services, it’s really important to have Tuneshine be low friction. Artists and albums change frequently when you listen through a playlist and Tuneshine needs to be able to keep up without requiring manual intervention.

I assumed that adding Shazam capabilities to Tuneshine would require a hardware revamp to add a microphone and a processor beefy enough to do audio processing alongside the networking and image processing it already does. So I dismissed it for the longest time as being something I’d do “later.”