this morning i was going to the office. headphones on. i was listening to a david guetta track.

and out of nowhere i had this thought: could i make something like this?

not in a deep way. not like “i want to prove something.” just curiosity. the simple kind.

i know tools like suno. i tried it before.

and yeah, it produces something. sometimes it even sounds “good.”

but then the funny part happens.

my ears adapt fast. like, scary fast.

the first time you hear an ai track, it can feel impressive.

but after a few tries, you start hearing the pattern. the same safe choices. the same clean-but-empty feeling.

and you don’t even need to be a musician for that. you just need repetition.

there’s a concept called hedonic adaptation. basically: we get used to new things and they stop feeling special.

and there’s also this quiet “expectation shift” that comes with it. yesterday’s wow becomes today’s normal.

it explains why something that would have felt like magic two years ago now feels like: ok. next.

another thing is exposure. the more you’re around something, the more you learn to notice tiny differences.

like when you start hearing “ai smell” in music. not because you are smart. just because your brain got trained by repetition.

it’s kind of annoying. but also kind of interesting.

so yeah, maybe ai can get to eighty percent of a david guetta vibe.

but i think the bigger question is: what happens to us when eighty percent becomes common?

what do we call “good” when the baseline keeps moving?

i’m not trying to solve it.

i just wanted to write down the feeling.

small references

hedonic adaptation, contrast effect, and how our standards shift with exposure. apa dictionary · sciencedirect topic