Ben Walker

@ihatemornings.com

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1980-2002: young and foolish 2002-2012: played in bands 2012-2025: worked at bandcamp 2025- : makes synths i guess @audiocomputer.bsky.social

Black drum machine with colourful knobs, sliders and buttons sitting on a workbench full of electronics gear.
The fact of the matter is, “prompt engineering” or whatever they’re calling it these days, has a skill cap that’s in the floor. Prompting LLMs simply just isn’t a skill, no matter what influencers who definitely weren’t previously claiming Bored Apes are the new Mona Lisa say. If you look at the prompts even the LLM developers themselves are using its things like “please don’t make stuff up” or “think extra hard before you answer”.
Me kneeling in front of a table of synths and drum machines at Superbooth fiddling with knobs and holding a biscuit.
T-shirt that says “Is it Bandcamp Friday yet?”
Liz Pelly’s new book, “Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Cost of the Perfect Playlist”
Technical drawing of the back of the Beat Friend drum machine, with lots of measurements.
Beat Friend prototype at Machina Bristronica 2024
Sainsbury’s self-checkout till screen, worth the alphabet grouped into six buttons: “A-B”, “S-Z”, “P-R”, “L-O”, “D-K” and “C”.
Geena Davis as Charly the amnesiac assassin defending her daughter from a helicopter-bound bad guy as the timer ticks down on a massive chemical bomb on a bridge over Niagara Falls (in The Long Kiss Goodnight).
Black Friday deals recommended to me, a middle-aged dad: two power tools, two Batman costumes.
Cat sleeping on my lap.
Screenshot of the External Media Preferences screen in the Bluesky app, which lists lots of media sources (Flickr!) but not Bandcamp.
Official portrait of Chris Bryant MP, former Anglican priest.
Google Slides on an iMac, title slide says “Why I should get a hamster / By your lovely daughter”
The Wizard of Oz pulling a lever
“Is it Bandcamp Friday yet?” t-shirt