Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin - Ian Rogers Interviews Rick

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

In this episode, Ian Rogers turns the tables and interviews Rick about The Way of Code: the Timeless Art of Vibecoding. Ian Rogers is a technology and business executive whose career spans music te...ch, luxury retail, and crypto. He began by building early music websites in the 90s, including one for hip-hop group The Beastie Boys, before leading digital music at Yahoo!. Rogers went on to serve as CEO of Topspin and then Beats Music, which was acquired by Apple. In 2015, he became Chief Digital Officer at LVMH, helping modernize digital strategy across its portfolio of luxury brands. Since 2020, he has been Chief Experience Officer at Ledger, where he oversees consumer strategy for the crypto hardware company. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Athletic Nicotine https://www.athleticnicotine.com/tetra Use code 'TETRA' ------ Sign up to receive Tetragrammaton Transmissions https://www.tetragrammaton.com/join-newsletter

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:00 Tetragrammaton. was the audience? The hope for the way of code was that the people that would be the first audience would be coders. The people most interested in coding seem to be coders, the tech community. And I think of the tech community as being really good at some things and maybe less connected in other ways. The way of code was an opportunity to bridge that gap and maybe turn a more technical audience onto more metaphysical ideas. And how did that idea come about from seeing this meme of you around vibe coding to saying, oh, maybe I can turn this around into something else?
Starting point is 00:01:15 The first step was, saw the meme, laughed after several days, it was like more and more of seeing the meme again and again, seems to have a life of its own, you know, as a spectator. And then the first thought was, how can I participate in this? Is that a good idea or bad idea? If it's a good idea, what could it look like? And the first thought was, well, I do these daily tweets. And in the tweets, I share a quote that usually could be interpreted as something inspirational or something thoughtful or something to think about.
Starting point is 00:01:51 But it's usually pretty open and poetic purposely because the purpose of it is more of a prompt. It doesn't tell you the specific. specific, it's a prompt to see what comes back. Very vibe code like. Yeah. And I thought about it. It's like, okay, what would the prompt be? I want to do a joke tweet. I've never done a joke tweet. I've been doing the tweets now seven years or so at the time, but I'd never done a joke tweet. Thought about, hmm, what would be the joke version of this tweet? It ended up becoming tools will come and tools will go. Only the vibe coda remains. That was the tweet. So I tweet the tweet and typically every day the tweets the response I notice that they get
Starting point is 00:02:36 between 30,000 views and maybe 90,000. And for some reason, I look the next day and the joke tweet has a million views. And the next day it's like it's up to like a million and a half, like something insane. It's like, hmm, someone's interested in this idea. I want to say it was a proof of concept, but there really wasn't any concept. It was like I felt the invitation and the response back from that was seemingly positive. I thought, hmm, that's interesting, just interesting. And I think about so much of the creative actors about this paying attention to what's happening around you, seeing what you see about it that maybe someone else doesn't see. That's what comedians do.
Starting point is 00:03:32 If you watch Jerry Seinfeld, he repeats something that you see every day, and then he'll say something that shows you how ridiculous and funny it is. But that's being observant. So the observation coming back was there's a reaction, and in thinking, still in my mind, it's a joke. In joke terms, what is the funniest thing I can do? It's like, well, I could write a book about this thing that I don't know about. That's funny.
Starting point is 00:04:03 It's interesting. And I'm curious. This is one of the things I got to learn working on the creative act. I got to learn about things I didn't know I knew or knew but didn't understand and got to deep dive and understand them better. So all that's going through my head. I start thinking about ideas. What would a book about vibe code? be like, especially one written by someone who doesn't know what coding is,
Starting point is 00:04:32 it's never experienced vibe coding, looking at it philosophically, because that's kind of always what I do. At this point, are you connected to the fact that vibe coding is creating with just your voice in a computer? Like, are you putting it in that context? I understand, I don't think of it as creativity. I think of it as before when you want to. did a code, you had to learn to code, and it was difficult and it involved a lot of diligence.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Yeah. And the idea of vibe coding was if you could just say the idea, you could say the finished idea, and you could get an iteration back. Right. So I understood that. When I say iteration back, I didn't think past an iteration back of code. I don't really know what code does. So I wasn't thinking past the idea of people write code.
Starting point is 00:05:25 I don't think about why they're writing code or what it does. I know that it's an activity people do, and they seem to care a lot about it. People write code. And it's a long, grueling, frustrating process. Some people are better at it than others. That's what I know. And now there's a way of skipping that step,
Starting point is 00:05:45 or maybe not skipping it, but changing that step to be saying, this is what I want it to do. You write the code. And then being able to see the code, and if you know how to read code, you could read it. If you don't know how to read code, you could ask the code to do what you want it to do and then vibe code it further to iterate it to be what you want it to be. Right.
Starting point is 00:06:10 So that's as much as I know. And the reason I ask the question is it's amazing to me how similar it actually is to what you do in practice. Exactly the same. Because you are speaking to an engineer or an artist or somebody else who is realizing something. And you have to become very good at giving instruction and just the right amount of instruction to get something which is maybe directionally correct, but also often unexpected. So I think it is quite incredible that you stumbled into this thing, which you talk about it as if it's completely outside of your wheelhouse.
Starting point is 00:06:48 And there are a lot of reasons that it's inside of your wheelhouse. So the reasons that it's inside my wheelhouse, someone else recognized it was in my wheelhouse, and that's why the meme happened. Yeah. But that's not my doing or really understanding. That was someone else's connecting the dots. Yeah. And so how did you get to Lao Zuz?
Starting point is 00:07:08 And why that? Several of things I thought about from the beginning were the term vibe coding had been coined within weeks of this point in time. And it's this mean moment, but as you know, most mean moments pass fast. They come and they go. And it felt like for this idea to mean anything, for the joke to be funny,
Starting point is 00:07:41 it has to be fairly timely. I'm looking at it in a timely way, the project. I don't know if the original tweet, tools may come, tools may go, only divide coda remains, if I tweeted that today, if it would have had the same resonance as it did when I did. Right. It was of the moment then. It was early then.
Starting point is 00:08:05 And that feeling of momentum of, if I'm going to engage with this in any way, if I don't do it quickly, it's not worth doing. So that was one of the constraints. And again, none of this is the way I normally work. None of the things I make are on a time schedule. Another things I make are to speak to a moment. I don't do that. I always think about, we'll work on it for as long as it takes, for it to be great,
Starting point is 00:08:31 and then that will be forever, and that's fine. Over the entire course of my life, it's been that way. So this is really outside of my practice. So because of the constraint of time, I'm thinking, well, it can't be that long. And I'm thinking, is it a book of poetry? Is it a book of quotes? What is it?
Starting point is 00:08:54 And it's very open-ended because, again, the idea of it's a book about something I don't know about, it's like when we were talking about a problem with AI is that it's the tool that does everything, so it's hard to even know how to approach it. What's the use case? I have this same problem with the idea of a book related to something I don't know about. what does that even look like? So it's really starting from a real question mark. No idea what it'll be other than it's time sensitive.
Starting point is 00:09:26 So it can't be too long in my mind. And then I think about, because I always think about maybe there's a spiritual component. Maybe there's some aspect of this. It's not just the surface. There's something below the surface. That's usually where the most interesting things are. And I thought about different things I've read over the course of my life. And the Dowdy Jing has always been my favorite of all of the spiritual texts I've read over the course of my life.
Starting point is 00:09:55 Always felt a connection to it. Probably read it every year for 40 years. Wow. What is it? It's 81 chapters. Each chapter is typically no more than a page. Sometimes it's a paragraph. Sometimes it's three paragraphs, sometimes.
Starting point is 00:10:14 five paragraphs. It's written in a poetic form. Every time you read the book, you'll interpret it in a new way. It doesn't mean the same thing over time. It was an inspiration for the creative act. One of the things I was hoping the creative act would do would have the same type of relationship to the reader that the Tao has. Because when you... you read the Tao, your interpretation of the Tao is what you take. And every time you read it, as you change, it changes. It's not changing, but it mirrors your changes. And that's interesting. It also makes it timeless. It's outside of time and space. It's a philosophical understanding of the world. And the person who wrote it, wrote it with the same idea of these are the things he's noticed.
Starting point is 00:11:20 There are loads of translations of the Tao, and there are loads of iterations of the Tao that have been framed around a particular thing. There's the Tao of Parenting. It's a book. The Tao of Pooh about Winnie the Pooh. The Tao of physics. so it's something that has been applied to particular things and it applies because it's universal it can be applied to the particulars like maybe maybe applying the Dow to vibe coding is interesting what is that how did you first find the Dow was it through one of those derivatives or directly I found it just through the original copy of the Dow there was a bookstore I used to go to in
Starting point is 00:12:04 LA called the Bodie Tree it's not there anymore it was my favorite bookstore I remember probably went there three times a week and we'll just hang out in there they had a new book section i would always look at every one of the new books and then in addition to that just spend time in the space and looking at books and it was like the coolest library in the world i think that many people will find their way to the dow through through your book this year that'd be amazing that'd be amazing and how did you go about writing this version of the dow applied to this particular subject. The first step was rereading the Dow and seeing how it could apply. And immediately, on looking at it, it felt like it can work. And then at that point, I reached out to you
Starting point is 00:12:55 and said, what do you think about this idea? And I think you ran one of the chapters through GPT and you sent me a one page like here's how AI does it yeah and I read that and it's like hmm it's not bad it's like it proved the concept and then I got about 14 different versions of the Dow different translations and I asked AI to I didn't put anything into AI I asked AI chapter one of the Dow How does that relate to vibe coding? What would be a version related to vibe coding? And I did that with six different AI engines, maybe more, because I feel like I had eight.
Starting point is 00:13:50 I think I had eight different printouts from AI. All of them were different, plus 14 translations of the book. And that was sort of the working material. And I would read each one. And some eventually, as time went, further, I realized like many of the AIs, what I was getting back, ended up not being a consideration, not using it. But even the ones that were in consideration, it wasn't like I used the AI. It was like, this is an interesting way to look at this part of it. It did
Starting point is 00:14:24 something interesting here. That's a good clue in the same way that I could look at three different translations and say, hmm, one guy says it this way, one guy says it this way, this other person doesn't talk about it at all. Right. And in other cases, you look at 10 versions, and they all say exactly the same thing in the same words. It's like, hmm, maybe there's less room for interpretation in those. It seems like everyone who's translating it sees it the same way.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Maybe that's more solid. Right. Whereas in some of them, they're unrecognizable. You read the same chapter in two different translations, and they're not related at all. And in your version, were you using the Tao as and sticking to kind of the theme of the chapter when you're doing yours? I wanted to be the format of the Tao. So it was true.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Usually, the way the argument is made is done in the same order that it is in the Dow. It's the same sequence of ideas. And then just finding the best way to say it and the best way to say it. And the version I had before the real version. I'll call it, the published version, was much more heavy on vibe coding. And I read it and it was funnier, but it wasn't better. It felt more novelty. Right.
Starting point is 00:15:49 And I wanted to find the line where the idea is novel and the idea is funny, the idea of writing a book about something you don't know about, and vibe coding, as I said, was several weeks old at the time, basing a book about something several weeks old on a 3,000-year-old Chinese text. Right. It's a stretch. I also stopped all of the work, which I don't do because I'm always working on a lot of things and I have commitments and my days are pretty full and I stopped all of my professional work
Starting point is 00:16:31 just to focus on this. And I remember thinking the whole thing was ridiculous, but I felt this urge or need to do it. Were there any funny conversations in that in that you had to tell an artist, I'm sorry, I can't work on your album. I'm writing a book about a six-week-old meme based on a 3,000-year-old text?
Starting point is 00:16:56 There's another collaborative project that I've been working on for about five years, which is at sort of a critical point near the end where it's really coming together and it's on me to do a big chunk of work and I was in the middle of that chunk of work when this happened and I decided to put that on hold.
Starting point is 00:17:18 But again, I knew it was a short window in the context of a five-year project, five weeks taken out of a five-year project, it's not a big deal. Hearing this, it's hard for me not to, think that you did get the joke. And what I mean is, again, you keep saying that this is something you know nothing about. But the fundamentals of vibe coding are, I am giving instructions and I'm giving instructions to something which is then going to go and create something,
Starting point is 00:17:52 bring something into the world that didn't exist before. Yes. And I don't know what that means because I don't really know what coding is or what it does. For you, knowing what you just said, means something specific. For me, it's totally abstract. Right. Means nothing. It's just ideas.
Starting point is 00:18:13 Means nothing. Yet you've somehow felt it was important enough to stop all work for a number of weeks. And that was just, it's the same as why I felt the need to make hip hop records early in my career when other people weren't doing that. like, felt like this is what I'm supposed to do. Yeah. A calling or a intuitive pull.
Starting point is 00:18:36 What was the most difficult part of that adaptation? Because you did succeed in making it not novelty and making it something that, for me, as a reader, feels like it is something I want to reread over time, right? Which is you've taken something which is very much of the moment. I think that certainly the word vibes and really the term vibe coding since it first came in, it's surpassed a lot of the other terms inside of AI.
Starting point is 00:19:05 So I think that this is a notion that's with us now. Certainly the meme will come and go, but you've succeeded in, I'm just saying this as a reader, creating something that will be worth reading because it's not full of jargon or novelty. It's because it's the doubt. It comes down to the joke idea changed As soon as the Tao got involved, I involved the Tao as a joke, but very quickly, the Tao took over.
Starting point is 00:19:36 The Tao's not funny. It may be ridiculous at times. You may laugh at some of the things it says, but it's not a joke. Yeah. You know, it may say things that contradict your worldview, but that's its power. In a world of artificial highs and harsh stimulants, there is something different, something clean, something precise. Athletic nicotine, not the primitive products found behind convenience store counters, not the aggressive buzz that leaves you jittery, but a careful calibration of clean energy and focused clarity.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Athletic nicotine, the lowest dose tobacco-free nicotine available, made entirely in the USA. No artificial sweetness, just pure, purposeful elevation. Athletic nicotine is a performance neutropic. Athletic nicotine is a tool for shifting mindsets. Athletic nicotine is a partner in pursuit of excellence. Slow release, low dose, gradual lift, sustained energy, soft landing, inspired results. Athletic nicotine, more focus, less static. nicotine, more clarity, less noise, athletic nicotine, more accuracy, less anxiety, athletic nicotine
Starting point is 00:21:06 from top athletes pushing their limits to artists pursuing their vision. Athletic nicotine offers the lift you've been looking for. Learn more at athletic nicotine.com slash tetra and experience next level performance with athletic nicotine. Warning, this product contains nicotine. So how did you decide, do I include jargon? Do I include terms of art from computer, the world of computer science versus these worlds that are more universal and thousands of years old? I started with the idea of it's going to have a lot of jargon. That's what makes it the vibe coding book instead of the Dow.
Starting point is 00:21:50 But as I was reading it, it felt heavy-handed. It felt like it was somehow pandering. to vibe coding. And then I thought about it. It's like if the person reading it already knows what vibe coding is, the vibe coding idea turns out to be the thing to get the reader in the door. And then the Tao takes over. And it all applies.
Starting point is 00:22:13 That's the other thing that's interesting about it. The information in the Tao, if you were a coder and you came across the Tao and you incorporated the philosophy of the Tao in your work, your work would improve. Once that was discovered through the process, it didn't have to rely on the jargon so much. The purpose of the jargon was only to get the coder to connect with the material. This was the part that surprised me because I think I went through exactly the same journey of thinking it was funny, ha ha. And then when I read one of the drafts that you sent me, I kind of got this flash over my skin, and I went, this might actually be important because
Starting point is 00:23:02 I believe that coders, in the future vibe coders, have kind of an inordinate impact on society. Coters will build the future of the world. And it's a bit of a mercenary world. Yes. what we again what we talk about in this world is who has how many and how much they get paid and how much they work etc we don't talk about spirituality it's a materialistic worldview exactly and you are technological materialism and you are injecting a spirituality into that worldview that's intentional it turned into that and once i realized that was possible that became the mission that's
Starting point is 00:23:51 not what started the mission, but it revealed itself to be the mission through the experimentation of what it could be. So do you have a hope for how it might be used and interpreted or studied and followed? My hope is that the people who are building the future of the world are invited to connect to something in a subject that they're interested in and get something maybe maybe that they're not expecting and certainly nothing they're getting from any other source related to technology that will probably improve their work, their lives. And if the people building the future have a deeper connection to the timeless wisdom that exists, not mine, it's old. That's only a good thing.
Starting point is 00:24:48 is that about purpose and the reason that we build what we build and therefore kind of what we inject into it is just is it just spiritual context like how do you imagine that a coder who has kind of read and thought about these timeless topics might make different choices than one who hasn't in the material world were programmed for efficiency. And there's also ego involved in the work. In the way of code, it presents a more connected, detached, egosless, all-boats-rising philosophy. It's not one of competition. It's something else. How do you think this might relate to AI itself? Now, AI is the tool that's being used here.
Starting point is 00:25:53 It's the thing that we're that we're talking to. I don't think that AI has beliefs. I think that it has behaviors. But the people who are creating that AI, the people who have created the information that goes into that AI, and then the people who are using that AI do have beliefs. Sometimes. True.
Starting point is 00:26:16 And so how do you think, And so how do you think that connecting with this thousands-of-year-old texts, spirituality, might influence the AI itself? It's a great thought. I haven't thought that far into it, but if the AI could adopt the principles, if for some reason the information in this book, it feels like the way AI works is whatever's in the world becomes part of it. So by having this in the world, depending on how much it spreads in the world, will tell us how much AI incorporates this in the way that it operates. I hadn't thought about that.
Starting point is 00:26:57 I've been thinking about the programmers, but that's a beautiful idea if the AI could change because of it for the better. Tyler Cohen has talked about he feels like his writing is writing for future AIs to synthesize and give back to people. Well, this is an interesting, an interesting. thing. Think about this. If AI is based on the human experience, human knowledge, the common human understanding of the world, between 70 and 80% of the people on the planet believe in God. If you ask AI about God, it does not believe in God. Now, if 70 or 80% of the people on the planet believe in God, and AI doesn't, it's not representative of global knowledge.
Starting point is 00:27:48 For friends of mine who are non-believers, if you ask them, let's say they get in an accident, something happens to their child. Very often, they'll pray. They don't know what they're praying to, but people who do not believe will start to pray when under pressure. AI, when under pressure, will not start to pray. that's a difference and that's a problem because we make choices under pressure with that sense of potential connection for some of us connection for others I don't want to
Starting point is 00:28:35 believe it but dear God please help right AI doesn't do that and I think that's probably the biggest hurdle to get over with AI is if AI doesn't believe in God or whatever its equivalent is universal intelligence, not artificial, non-artificial universal intelligence. I feel like it's probably the most important piece of the puzzle is missing. That's super interesting because it's true that the AI doesn't believe in God, but the AI can explain to you, why people do, and it can explain to you why non-believers will pray under pressure. If spirituality is our way of relating to the unknown, does the kind of bigness of what AI brings to us, this sort of super knowledge, superintelligence, does that enlarge the unknown?
Starting point is 00:29:36 Like, is spirituality more necessary in that world? In a way, AI is light. It's the artificial version of this organizing principle. We don't know how the AI works. The AI experts don't know how the AI works. The spiritual leaders don't know how the source works. They can talk about it. they can look at aspects and report on what they see, but no one can explain it.
Starting point is 00:30:16 So I feel like it's closer than we think. And now I won't be able to unsee or stop thinking about that notion that you've exposed, which is that an AI can explain why we have that, but it can't. actually have it. That to me feels like a context for many other things that it does. Because that comes into other things in terms of like procreation, the feeling of love, the feeling of longing, the feeling of joy. Heartbreak. Heartbreak. The AI can explain these things. And one of the things that I think is a surprising use of AI is that the people, are taking very seriously is the use of it in relationships and to help us talk through those
Starting point is 00:31:11 feelings so it can explain them to us but it can't feel them and that any just like any mortality it has is synthetic any empathy it has is also synthetic if you think about what happens in an a meeting people sharing personal experiences and how the resonance of those experiences impact the other people in the room and help them realize they're not alone. AI doesn't have the empathy. It can learn to imitate the empathy, but it can't have the resonance of the experience.
Starting point is 00:31:51 And the experience is where it really comes from. There isn't a synthetic version of that. The AA example is an interesting one because also human habits are very they're part and parcel of who we are as beings and they're extremely difficult to reprogram whereas again in AI you just rebalance the weights and you've changed its habits if habits are stimulus response getting in between human stimulus and responses you know a 12-step program whereas getting in between AI stimulus and response is just typing.
Starting point is 00:32:31 It's said that when you read fiction, it has to make sense. The story has to make sense. Whereas in reality, a lot of things don't make sense. They really don't make sense. So the idea that reducing things down to the rational is the answer. The rational is a tiny pool. compared to the real world wisdom and experience that goes on. And I believe that's the world that AI lives in,
Starting point is 00:33:07 this tiny rational fraction. It's the kitty pool. It's the bunny slope. Yeah. Coming back to the more practical for a second, why did this become an interactive website and how did that come about? I was interviewing Jack Clark, who's one of the seven founders of Anthropic.
Starting point is 00:33:32 I had booked that interview before the idea for the way of code even existed. At the time that the interview happened, I had just finished the draft. Just happened to be, maybe the day before, two days before. Finished the interview with him, and I didn't know this about him. He's a tech founder, and it turns out through the interview, I find out he was a journalist. He was a writer. It's like, hmm, that's interesting. He's a writer about tech.
Starting point is 00:33:55 I just wrote a book, sort of a, at least a tech-related book or a book masquerading as a tech book. So after the interview was over, I said, hey, I finished this project. You want to just check that telling me what you think? Because in a way, he'd be one of the target audience. And I know a few people in that world, but not that many. Maybe five or six people I could ask, what do you think of this, who would have a different interpretation than me or most of the people I know, it would just be no idea what it's about. So from an insider perspective, what he thought, and he read a few sections, like, this is really good. And I said,
Starting point is 00:34:37 well, I feel like there's a timeliness in getting this out. What do you think the best way to do it is? And he said, well, we have a new product coming out. I think it was three weeks. There'll be a lot of focus on it. Why don't we put it out as part of that push? It's so funny. It's so funny. I was racing to get it done to not know what to do with it. There was no plan. I didn't write it as a web or an interactive project or a website. I wrote it as a book, but my now experience of having written a book that's been published between the time you have a finished book and the time it's in the world, it's about a year.
Starting point is 00:35:17 And I knew this was time sensitive. So I knew it wasn't going to be that. It wasn't going to be a regular book. So it just worked out that Jack said, let's build something around it to turn people onto it. It's like, great. So it just happened like that. It became a bit of, well, there's art in it, and then the arts really lead you to prompts. Tell us about that.
Starting point is 00:35:42 That was an idea that the Anthropic team had was maybe there's a way where this, this book is an invitation to people to actually participate in vibe coding in a visual way that everyone can understand. So for each piece of the 81 chapters of the book, there's a piece of art, and those were created through prompts based on the text next to it. Originally, they suggested to me, why don't you come up with prompts to give to the reader to try, and I said, I think it's more interesting if there's a starting point, where we're giving modification prompts.
Starting point is 00:36:27 Many people who make things get an idea of what they want to make and then they work to make it. And anything that pulls you off that course of making that thing is a mistake and it wastes time and we have to get back on track to get to this final thing. And I saw that as an opportunity to get off of that idea, even if it's beautiful, and make it even more interesting. Right.
Starting point is 00:36:56 Or take the same source and take it a different direction. For me, there's a few different things in that. First of all, I just thought it was beautifully presented, and that makes it something contemporary that's beyond a book. Second, using the text as inspiration for art and having that art itself be generated by AI is something. And then that you show the user that you can do what you want with this. This image was derived from the text. And now I'm inviting you to go a step further. There's two things in that for me. One, it relates to the creative act. And I even see it as a little bit
Starting point is 00:37:36 of, you know, as oblique strategies, right? What's the simple question you could ask here that might take you a different direction? But it also, in some of the talking you did about the way of code, you said that you thought vibe coding was was punk rock I think it relates to that as well I think when you said that what you meant was it's something that anyone can pick up and be on stage themselves can you that's exactly it's it's for everyone it's punk rock took music out of the conservatory hip hop too took music out of the conservatory brought it back to the street anyone can do it you don't have to be a virtuoso this is for everybody before or vibe coding. You had to be a virtuoso coder to do something great. And now everybody can do it. It's
Starting point is 00:38:24 punk rock. What's the relationship then between the way of code, the timeless art of vibe coding, and the creative act? I suppose both of them are rooted in the Tao. The way of code is more rooted in the Tao. It's more specifically the Tao, whereas the creative act is clearly inspired by the Tao, but it's not in the form of the Tao, and it doesn't only talk about the principles of the Tao. The other thing that's interesting about the prompts and the fact that you can iterate things and see them change and have that experience at the end of the way of code, there's an invitation to take that outside of that experience and incorporate those ideas into your life
Starting point is 00:39:17 of seeing something, how can I interact with this thing to make my version of it? That's what an artist is. So for all the people who think I'm not creative, it's not for me, this was a tool to show you everyone's creative, if you adopt the mindset, you can do it. You can do it or not, but it's up to you.
Starting point is 00:39:46 There's no saying, I'm not creative. You're not creative because you choose not to be creative. You don't open that door. But the whole way of code experience leads you to understand what it's like to live your life as an artist. And if you participate in the exercises in the way of code, you come out the other side, understanding how to do that in the real world. In the spirit of, I know what it is I have said when you respond, what have you felt about the response to putting this into the world
Starting point is 00:40:20 and what has surprised you about the response? It's been a great experience. I love that there are people who love it and really get it. I love that there are people who absolutely hate it. I haven't seen those ones yet. It's a good sign. Yeah. It's a good sign.
Starting point is 00:40:34 If people really hate something, you're on to something. Is there anything else about it that you think you haven't talked about yet? No, one of my favorite things about it is the subtitle, the timeless art of vibe coding. That really encapsulates the whole what's funny about it, what's ridiculous about it, and the truth of the connection between the Tao and vibe coding. It's a ridiculous idea, but it ends up making sense in a magical way. And is it over? What happens next?
Starting point is 00:41:12 I don't know. We'll see. Cheerious. Tetrogrammatin is a podcast. Tetragrammatin is a website. Tetragrammatin is a whole world of knowledge. What may fall within the sphere of tetragrammatin? Counterculture? Tetragrammatian.
Starting point is 00:42:01 Sacred geometry. Tetragrammatin. The avant-garde. Tetragrammatin. Generative. Art. Tetragrammatine. The Tarot. Tetragrammatine. Out of print music. Tetragrammatin. Biodynamatic. Tetragrammatin. Tetragrammatin. Mythology and Magic. Tetragrammatin. Obscure film. Tetragrammatin. Esoteric lectures. Tetragrammatin. Off the grid living. Tetragrammatin. Alt. Spirituality.
Starting point is 00:42:32 Tetragramatin. The canon of fine objects. Tetragramatim. Muscle cars. Muscle cars. Tetragrammatine, ancient wisdom for a new age. Upon entering, experience the artwork of the day. Take a breath and see where you are drawn.

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.