Elgato removed my favourite Stream Deck plugin. The AI built me a new one.

Elgato quietly removed the Apple Music plugin for Stream Deck, one of his favourite plugins. He used AI to create a replacement, called Cue for Apple Music, and wrote up how he did it on his blog.

How it works

Elgato quietly removes the Apple Music Stream Deck plugin
He has the AI write a replacement plugin
The new plugin, Cue for Apple Music, takes its place

Why it’s worth knowing

When the company pulled the plugin he relied on, he did not wait for a substitute. The AI wrote him a new one.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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