Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI 2026-08-06 In September 2025, I had the idea to revive my self-hosted music streaming platform Coral. I had just discovered the website cosine.club and was blown away by how accurate the recommendations were for electronic music. I found out that it was using public machine learning models from Essentia and thought of a way to integrate it into Coral.
- ▪Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI 2026-08-06 In September 2025, I had the idea to revive my self-hosted music streaming platform Coral.
- ▪I had just discovered the website cosine.club and was blown away by how accurate the recommendations were for electronic music.
- ▪I found out that it was using public machine learning models from Essentia and thought of a way to integrate it into Coral.
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| Original publisher | JP's blog |
| Canonical URL | https://glattetre.me/blog/reflections-on-software-engineering/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:08:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-06T16:20:48.004Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-06T16:20:48.004Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | C_OPi9csZq_J · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI 2026-08-06 In September 2025, I had the idea to revive my self-hosted music streaming platform Coral. I had just discovered the website cosine.club and was blown away by how accurate the recommendations were for electronic music. I found out that it was using public machine learning models from Essentia and thought of a way to integrate it into Coral. The way the website works lies in its name, it uses Essentia’s inference pipeline and models to get audio embeddings, which are searched through via a vector database using their cosine distance. The lower the cosine distance is, the more similar the embeddings are and thereby the more likely the tracks in the list are to match.
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