I was on the phone when I heard this… “With AI and art, I feel that there is no end game”.

I feel like a songwriter or author that got haunted by a phrase that makes run to a piece of paper. For me, it’s my computer and this blog you are reading. For the record, I'm not anti-AI. I’m not arguing against it.
I’m simply questioning the reality of the times we’re in.

Will it bother you if the voice moving you isn’t real?
If the lyrics that bring you to tears weren’t born from someone’s lived experience, but from a prompt?

It’s not like we’re 3D-printing chicken or letting AI father our children.
It’s just a tool, right?

Maybe.
But for me—yes—it does matter.

Moments ago, I had an odd feeling in my stomach—this strange question that’s been haunting me all year: Would I still be mixing and mastering music in five years? Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the creative world faster than any of us expected. With a click of a button, an artist can “create” lyrics, shape your voice and creating a choir for a industry competing arrangement, no studio, musician, arranger is necessary, and it can “master” a track in seconds. So the question naturally pops up:

“Should I keep mixing and mastering when AI can do it instantly?”

My answer — grounded in 25+ years of ears, instinct, and craft — is simple:

Yes. Because AI cannot replace me.

Here are the seven reasons that I could find…and boy was it reassuring….maybe it will be for you will too.

Photos by @josuemlopez17

Every now and then, a song walks into the room revealing the journey an artists has been on.
I know the song, but hearing it live with just the piano…reassuringly familiar yet, It felt fresh for some reason.

Before the preamps warm up, before I could settle the mics in position, before we even count off—
we were present. This was going to be all in one take!.

Episode 2 of Live From A SafeHouse lives in that space.

This session wasn’t about chasing complexity or proving anything.
It was about an alignment—a heart posture set to melody. An engineer ready to capture it all.