While artgrabber was a success of AI coding me a discord bot, genidi was a drastic failure during #decemberadventure.
In 2026, I want to make a lot more music. Two areas where I really want to explore are composing, MIDI and sequencing. I feel I have sound creation down, but putting those sounds together to make songs and compositions is not something I understand. So for my last #decemberadventure I figured I'd try and make a midi generator for the command line I could use. I wanted it to be like babies first midi. I wanted it to tell me what was happening over the wire that was going from my computer to a mmMidi which then went to my smaller Eurorack system.
I wanted the code to be in Go and run on the cli. I wanted it to be a simple eight step sequencer. Each step should send an envelope (basically a voltage that defines what volume of the note is), and a note (A, B, C etc.). I also needed to define a clock signal, basically how fast the sequencer moved to the next step.
I decided to use Cursor's new Agent mode to generate this. The code it created is at icco/genidi. It did not create anything that worked. Some pieces it generated worked, mostly some of the UI, but it did not do the following:
- Properly send Midi
- Generate steps as I wanted
So now I've started fixing the code and am heavily debating rewriting from scratch. That will be a project for January.
/Nat