ChatGPT changed the rewrite, but not the taste
In 2025, ChatGPT helped me turn rough C++ and early Rust into better Rust. The real advantage was not speed. It was finally having leverage without losing taste.
Brian Arbuckle
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Founder notes on the long path from private audio workflow tools to Level Rebel.
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Sep 15, 2025
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The year the tool pile started acting like a product
By mid-2022, my private audio tools had multiplied, the GUI experiments were getting serious, and I was starting to move C++ ideas into Rust by hand.
Jul 15, 2022 -
The point where Python stopped being enough
In 2019, I started moving pieces of my personal audio workflow out of Python and into C++. It was not elegant, but it was the next honest step.
Jul 15, 2019