When Vendors Break, I Make Music: Announcing EatingTheDead.ai

Every engineer needs an outlet. Some people run marathons. Some people paint. Some people scream into pillows between sev-1 pages. Me? I make AI-generated songs about the everyday circus that is working in infrastructure.

That’s what EatingTheDead.ai is: my album, my therapy, my way of turning production fires, vendor betrayals, and existential dread into something halfway entertaining. It’s called Eating the Dead because, well, that’s basically what we do in this line of work—gnaw on the bones of legacy systems, duct-tape corpses of tech past back into service, and pray the auditors don’t notice.

Why does this exist? Because writing Jira tickets like NETAUTO-666: EVPN failed again on CL5 doesn’t quite scratch the same itch as belting out “Rage Against NVUE (NVIDIA just ruins my day)” to the tune of my own exasperation. Or crooning “Smells Like Cron Spirit” about the horrors of living with scripts that should’ve been retired when PHP4 died. Or just flat-out blaming Broadcom because… well, they deserve it.

Why is it great? Because it’s honest. Every track is a scar turned into a punchline. “Fun Fun Fun ’Til CorpIT Takes Docker Away” hits harder when you’ve been there. “FRR’s My Enemy” resonates if you’ve ever spent three hours watching BGP flap like a fish out of water. This isn’t just music; it’s war stories set to AI noise. It’s the kind of catharsis only another engineer would understand.

And yeah, it’s tongue-in-cheek. But buried in all the sarcasm is something real: the beauty of engineers coping with chaos by creating—taking pain points and turning them into artifacts that say, we were here, we suffered, we shipped anyway.

So welcome to the feast. This isn’t just an album—it’s a living error log with guitars. It’s a changelog you can hum along to. And if you’ve ever screamed at a vendor doc at 3am, congratulations: this album’s for you.