This recalls the early days of synthesizers; what was Switched-On Bach if not “I see what you did there”? I hope that analogy is right, because the synth provides a healthy, sustainable template for these tools (AI). Ubiquitous and unremarkable, controllable and hackable, with flavors ranging from fully corporate to gloriously DIY … I’m realizing, as I type this, that synthesizers might be one of the truly utopian technologies.

Robin Sloan, Notes on a Genre

You are ok until you get a compulsion to buy a lab coat for use with the modular. Once the lab coat happens, you’re really screwed.

The Mysteries Of 5U Modular on Reddit