Ideas Are Everything
For decades, the startup mantra was: Ideas are nothing, execution is everything. That wisdom is inverting. What does this mean for how we work?
Creativity
Research While You Sleep
I built a research assistant that runs while I sleep. Every morning at 5am, it wakes up, reads RSS feeds from writers I follow, and asks: "Is this relevant to what Matthias is working on right now?"
New Article in FAZ Digitalwirtschaft: “Hollywood’s New Enemies”
The real challenge with artificial artists is to rethink creativity itself, not as something exclusively human, but as a field that can expand through collaboration with intelligent machines.
Reasoning is beyond current AI system capabilities. Don't let the marketing blurb fool you.
LLMs cannot think. They cannot consciously create mental models, consider hypothetical scenarios, weigh causal relationships, and reflect on meaning. Talking about reasoning is only marketing blurb. Don't fall for it.
The Glass Bead Machine: AI-Enabled Vibe Coding Text Exploration
I built an AI tool to read everything I’ve ever written—just so I could have better conversations with my own ideas. Here is how.
Musical Intertextuality and AI
Music has always been shaped by co-creation—artists working with ideas from others or their own past works. AI fits naturally into this tradition. It doesn't replace musicians or start a new era; it simply extends the collaborative ways we've always made music.