ETA: They deleted the branch and the directory which housed this horrible song maker. I guess they were embarrassed, and they should be. Utterly disgraceful. I was going to make an entire discussion project for this but, much like the foundation, I have decided that creating things on your own is old skool. Scratch is experimenting with a "song maker" which works like FL Studio and it's not very good. I'm being careful with my wording because I don't want to insult the developers directly or indirectly, as that does not align with the community guidelines nor my own moral compass as a human being. Constructive criticism n all that. ...but it's also really hard if the thing that created it doesn't have feelings. The song maker was vibecoded, unapologetically and obviously. It contains several stylistic, systemic and incompatibility issues that just wouldn't have been spotted by a human programmer, or even someone testing for 5 minutes. Trivial things like certain sliders causing expensive refreshes that slow the editor to a crawl, even when nothing is running. My opinions on AI have changed drastically in the last 6 months in the realm of programming specifically and I think it can be a good debugging tool, since it's able to spot impossible tiny and obscure bugs that a human would spend weeks working around. It's a good asset. It is not a replacement for common sense, Scratch Team. It can't write Scratch 4 for you. It doesn't need to, you have very talented programmers (some of the best in the world, in my opinion). You should be focussing on writing code yourself instead of shilling Claude to do your dirty work, because what you've previewed is unacceptable and it can't do what you can do on your own. I'm not saying this because I hate Scratch or the Scratch Team, it's the opposite. I LOVE Scratch and believe in its potential. Its potential is not with AI.
