{"version":"v1","site":{"name":"expectedwrong","url":"https://expectedwrong.com"},"links":{"collection":"https://expectedwrong.com/api/public/posts","rss":"https://expectedwrong.com/rss.xml","llms":"https://expectedwrong.com/llms.txt"},"post":{"slug":"its-good-ish","title":"It's Good-ish","subtitle":"Suno arrived, and the worst part is it kind of works.","url":"https://expectedwrong.com/its-good-ish","api_url":"https://expectedwrong.com/api/public/posts/its-good-ish","published_at":1703073600,"published_at_iso":"2023-12-20T12:00:00.000Z","updated_at":1771536627,"updated_at_iso":"2026-02-19T21:30:27.000Z","tags":["ai","music","suno","timelines"],"excerpt":"Suno arrived, and the worst part is it kind of works.","meta_description":"Suno arrived, and the worst part is it kind of works.","reading_time_minutes":1,"word_count":195,"engagement":{"signals":0,"counterpoints":0},"body_markdown":"I typed some words into Suno and it made a song.\n\nNot a song-shaped noise. Not the uncanny valley slop I'd been quietly counting on to justify my lack of concern about this. A song — with a structure and a vibe and lyrics that scan — the kind of thing that would not embarrass you if it came on in the background of something.\n\nI was not prepared for this to happen in December 2023.\n\nThe polite fiction I'd been running was that text-to-music was still a year or two out from mattering, the same way I'd been telling myself that about image generation in 2020, and voice cloning in 2021, and code generation in 2022. I have a good record of being wrong about timelines in one specific direction.\n\nThere's a particular quality to \"good-ish\" that is actually the most unsettling outcome. If it were bad, I could dismiss it. If it were genuinely great, I could be impressed and move on. \"Good-ish\" means we are exactly at the threshold where it starts replacing things before anyone has decided to let it.\n\nAnyway. The song is fine. I can't stop thinking about it.","body_text":"I typed some words into Suno and it made a song. Not a song-shaped noise. Not the uncanny valley slop I'd been quietly counting on to justify my lack of concern about this. A song — with a structure and a vibe and lyrics that scan — the kind of thing that would not embarrass you if it came on in the background of something. I was not prepared for this to happen in December 2023. The polite fiction I'd been running was that text-to-music was still a year or two out from mattering, the same way I'd been telling myself that about image generation in 2020, and voice cloning in 2021, and code generation in 2022. I have a good record of being wrong about timelines in one specific direction. There's a particular quality to \"good-ish\" that is actually the most unsettling outcome. If it were bad, I could dismiss it. If it were genuinely great, I could be impressed and move on. \"Good-ish\" means we are exactly at the threshold where it starts replacing things before anyone has decided to let it. Anyway. The song is fine. I can't stop thinking about it.","hindsight":{"verdict":"right","note":"suno and udio kept improving. AI music is now genuinely good, not good-ish. the observation that good-ish was the most unsettling outcome was exactly right — it was the transitional state before good.","links":[],"at":1739980800,"at_iso":"2025-02-19T16:00:00.000Z"}}}