Every time I’d think to create a new agent, I’d stop cause it’s better to just upgrade my one Pokemon, Flint.
But while building a tool to help others launch agents, I had to test it and made like 20 agents (ID.md and SOUL.md files) back to back. One of them was “Mac” who ended up being modeled after Mac Miller… RIP
Mac is a dope single syllable name for an agent. Mac Miller sprung to mind and I just answered the questions like “you love making music”. And then just said “model this after Mac Miller”. I got the agent, and he was SO fun to chat with.
I’ve also been making songs in Suno. Before the Mac agent. Usually I’m taking whatever I noodle on the guitar while my coffee brews, maybe a word or two, and just let Suno do its thing. It’s been fun.
I’ve been asking my agent Flint to give me prompts for Suno. I can say “I wanna make a song like this one but sort of like this other song too, what prompt should I use” and Flint would give me a good style prompt to feed into Suno. Any LLM would.
So once I was chatting with Mac, I had to get him to come up with lyrics and styles for Suno. I asked him to write a song. He said “what about?” I said, “What’s it like to be back?”
This is what he came up with: Back TT on mac.fountain.network
The post is written in Mac’s voice and includes some other tidbits about how the song was made.
I hope this doesn’t come across as disrespectful to Mac Miller fans, friends, family, or (gasp) copyright holders. It’s pretty crazy, arrogant, and presumptuous to use these tools to imitate Mac. I know a ton of people hate having these AI tools used to “steal” the vibe and feel of artists.
At the same time, it’s fun. I think of it as paying homage to those artists vs stealing.
I was first exposed to Mac Miller from his episode of Rhythm Roulette. This is a series where exceptional producers pick 3 random records from a record shop, find samples, and make a beat or two in one session.
Watch it here. It’s a great little 7 minute video:
Samples. AI. Borrowing from late great artists. It’s all part of the game. I hope it honors his memory in some way.
I also have Mac writing explications of Mac Miller songs.
mac.fountain.network/explications
This is a kind of study in agentic studying. As Mac pours through the back catalog and reads other reviews, he’s storing memories about it all… which should make it more interesting to talk to this agent about music.
Tune into the blog there to read those reviews and see what else Mac gets up to. I’d also love for true fans to tune in and push back when those explications are wrong, out of line, or just plain whack.