Field Notes

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Process. Thoughts. The reasons behind the music.

Field notes from the process of making A Guy And AI. Posts here cover the creative decisions behind specific tracks, the AI tools used in production, and the broader questions the project keeps surfacing — about authorship, identity, and what it means to make something real with a machine.

May 2026Release Day - A Guy and AI

The "Ghostwriter in the Shell" metaphor didn't come from nowhere. It has a lineage that runs from 17th-century philosophy through 1960s literary critique all the way to one of the most important anime

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April 2026The Bubble We Built Ourselves

There are people in this community making work indistinguishable from professional film productions — and they have 200 views. That's not a content problem. That's a signal problem. And we created it

The Algorithm Is ListeningBuilding In PublicYouTube Algorithm
April 2026The Dark Side of AI communities

Grown men and their entitlements... Here's an uncomfortable truth about the other side of the communities we are part of and a lil statement of my own.

AI EthicsMisogynyFragile Masculinity
April 2026Diminishing Returns

The tools are free. The supply is infinite. And that's exactly the problem... here's what a 19th-century economics principle tells us about why mass-produced creativity is worth less than anyone makin

Mass ProductionAIEconomicsIdentity
April 2026Welcome to the new and improved aidanyagu.com

Welcome to the community. Here's why I took this long to show something, what's inside it, and why I built it myself...

Launch DayNew WebsiteRelaunch
March 2026Album Statement

The album statement has a new home. A Guy And AI drops May 1st, here's what my album is about, and why I spent fourteen months refusing to make something that sounds like everything else.

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