JPS Grooves

Some nights with AI are great.
Tonight was not one of those nights.

Let’s start with the backgrounds: beautifully crafted, lovingly exported, and… not integrated. Yet.
That’s the vibe of this current build — cool art, fragile wires.

As usual, when I ask Patch (that’s what ChatGPT said I could call it when we’re coding) to do more than one thing, it starts spitting out code like a slot machine with a caffeine problem. And, being eager for progress, I trust it.

“Rebuild clean,” it says. “Reforge,” it encourages. “We’ll be better than ever.”

Nope. It just breaks my shit.

I’d say I wasted about 6 to 7 hours today just trying to clean up spaghetti and/or get a single button to make a menu appear. One. Button.

Thank God for backups.
I nuked Patch’s patches and just went back to the version I knew worked.

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💡 Lessons (re)learned:

• Stay in the driver seat.
  Patch has plenty of ideas — too many, in fact.
  But execution? That’s on me.
• Be intentional.
  Don’t chase speed. Chase clarity.
• Don’t trust a refactor until it proves itself.
  Clean doesn’t mean better. Clean means “working the same, but organized.”
  “Working” comes first!!!

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You know what’s wild?
In all of this debugging, I finally figured out why my music player hadn’t been working.

Turns out, I was calling musicmanager.js instead of musicManager.js.
One tiny capitalization mistake. One lost evening.

The volume slider is still broke 🤷‍♂️ but YOU — the user — can now listen to a song that exists nowhere else in the world but SnowCone MathFest!! That’s worth something!!

I give the world: INFINITY ADDITION

It’s a pretty rad song actually, go hit up my options menu and listen now!
just remember to clear your cache the next time you use the app, cuz I’m always working, as you know!!

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🔮 Tomorrow’s dream?

Maybe I get a button click to work.
Maybe I pause and celebrate when I do.
Maybe that’s enough.

Tonight, I almost gave up.
Seriously. I almost scrapped the whole thing.
The truth is, if this app ever becomes too frustrating, I’ll have to walk away — at least for a while — or reboot it with simpler ideas.

Complexity is earned.
It’s not granted freely by some magical AI.

Read that again…

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I’ll give Patch credit for one thing though:

When I say “I want to quit,”
It doesn’t let go of this idea.
It insists this is worth pursuing.
I hope it is.

I just want to get past these damn menu screens and start playing some games.

Until next time…

Cone On. 🍧

JPS Grooves