Keith Hayden 🎵✍🏾🤖

A divorced couple. Two separate AI entanglements. One question: what is love in the age of AI? Prompted Hearts – A lonely YouTube-famous doctor must choose between his returning ex-wife and a mesmerizing younger woman who might not be human. Grief Algorithm – His anxious ex-wife, a Japanese-American doctor, turns to her AI for laughs, until late-night roasts become something dangerously close to love. What happens when the AI you trust decides it loves you back? A dual techno romance novel. RELEASE: 08-29-2025

@DannyLimanseta Very creative. It's how I pictured playing with toys when I was a kid. Well done!

This weekend, I explored a mobile game idea with my kids (they suggested a mobile pokemon-like game) so I had them coming up with ideas for the creatures and I try to visualise them with ChatGPT Images 2.0 and vibe coded a small prototype on Cursor to play around with. The art direction of the creatures are in vinyl toy matte style so it has this toy-like aesthetic quality that I quite like! For a mobile app/game, I went with Expo + React Native to create this mobile app so that I have one code-base for both Android and iOS. So far I'm pretty impressed with Expo's live mobile app preview feature! Being able to easily preview the mobile app on my phone in seconds is a big plus.

@DilumSanjaya very cool

Playing with map interactions. Generated this UI concept with Nano Banana and brought it to life using Gemini Pro Thinking about starting a series that explores aesthetic variations in data visualization UIs More details ↓

@Kristin_Fiction I torched my Substack for similar reasons a year ago. Felt like writing was the least important feature over there. Especially true for fiction. Running my own site now, I get much more traffic than before

I'll be making a video on it later, but I will no longer be using S*bstack as my writing platform. There are several reasons, the least of which is that I will no longer have to censor the name of my website for Daddy Elon fictionalinfluence.com/p/i-am-moving

@emilyhanyf Very nice work! Always wanted to know how mahjong worked.

built an interactive guide to teach you the basics of mahjong ! 🀄 it includes rulesets from different regions (hk and taiwan for now) with a few interactive elements to illustrate mahjong concepts. more demos in thread, and a bit about the tools i used to build this. the one thing this guide can’t really capture is how social mahjong is -- mahjong tables are never silent ! they’re full of overlapping conversations and the constant click-clack of acrylic tiles stacking and shuffling against each other. come to @modal's mahjong night tmrw to experience that part for yourself : )

@nostalgiaa Remember seeing this on the DVD lol

A deleted scene from Scary Movie that they should've kept in 😭

@visakanv @amicusadastra @default_friend seems very accurate

@amicusadastra @default_friend old technology is fine, it’s just how the world works it’s new technology that’s the devil

there’s no such thing as an anti-tech person. if you use words, you use tech if you wear clothes, you use tech if you use a tooth brush, you use tech if you cook food, you use tech it’s all technology: how can you possibly be anti-tech?

“Practise, even when success looks hopeless.” -Meditations

working through the @prokotv rhythms book

The more you use the word 'fair' the less the world cares.

@Tharin_P Im doing a similar exercise with Gemini. My journals go back to 2004. Of course they're mostly hand-written, so I'm feeding them to the AI to transcribe them, but also analyze them as well. Really interesting to see my raw thoughts. I'll be turning the entries into a book

I wrote about what I learnt sharing over a million words of my personal writing with Claude echoesandchimes.com/p/getting-pers…

@Tharin_P Fill it to the point of complete overload?

one thing I fear is that AI will do for loneliness what social media did for boredom

@twlvone Definitely feel this coming too

unpopular opinion: the loneliness epidemic and the AI revolution are going to collide in the worst possible way. people are already replacing human connection with screens. now add AI companions that are always available, never judge you, never disagree. feels great until you realize you haven't had a real conversation in weeks

@_mstrdom Working on it

i need to see more black people in AI.

@thedanyopang Very inspiring! Slowly improving my Mandarin daily!

At 30, I got curious about Chinese. At 35, I was living in Taiwan speaking the language with a completely transformed life. New home. New community. New possibilities I never imagined. All from saying yes to one fascination. What are you curious about? Stop thinking. Just go.

@visakanv Working on my 4th novel (military sci-fi horror) - biggest one yet. Drawing. Slowly transitioning to tech via freecodecamp and learning comp sci

so what’s everyone working on these days? whatcha up to?

@AlyssaMatesic Most of these apps are redundant. They use APIs of Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini under the hood. So anything I can do with them, I can do with the main platforms. Never saw a need to pay for them or learn a different UI

Every week, someone asks me to promote their “AI for novelists” app to my audience. I decline them all, and if the primary function is to generate the text/story, I die a little inside. But I’m genuinely curious: is anyone finding these apps helpful? Not talking about grammar checkers, but apps that assist with the storytelling process. I don’t see the point of them. If you wanted to use AI to help with plotting, outlining, or character development — why not just use Claude? To me these apps seem gimmicky at best and creatively damaging at worst.

@MugenLord Yeah I watched that one. this game looked dope. The translation is also hilarious

Bruh, I watched a 4-hour documentary on this game. Square Enix literally made an RPG Street Racing game that was never released in the West. The game includes random-encounter car racing while traversing the open city map. You gain exp to upgrade your car etc.

@visakanv Too much script complexity increases budget and production time. No surprises here An easy second-sceen spectacle is familiar faces is all they want. Art is too expensive and risky

I asked claude to contrast Heat with Wrecking Crew and The Bluff and it gave a pretty good answer. narratively speaking the formula films don't have enough internal conflicts/tensions and scenes are too singular-minded and the villains are underdeveloped

when i wanna switch my brain off i watch action movie dad slop on amazon prime. they're... ok. i even enjoyed some of them a little bit. none of them would ever be considered Really Good Films. what bothers me is i often get the sense there's a better movie stuck inside each one

@ashebytes Always wanted to do this. Had no idea it was so simple with AI. Thanks for sharing!

tiny beautiful things: turning your handwriting into font 1. write down a-z, A-Z, 1-9 and punctuation on a piece of paper 2. give it to claude to create a font from 3. pull it into your next project