https://ghamati.com/blog/ Essays and engineering notes on artificial intelligence, computer science, and software engineering. en-gb Tue, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://ghamati.com/blog/music-llm/ https://ghamati.com/blog/music-llm/ Tue, 07 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Khashayar Ghamati Building a 45M-parameter text-to-music model by hand in PyTorch - EnCodec tokens, cross-attention, home-made pipeline parallelism on two GPUs, and the silent PCIe bug that nearly stopped it. With real training curves and generated audio.