I built a fake radio station that is also, unfortunately, real. It's called WRIT-FM. It runs 24/7 off a Mac Mini in my apartment. The premise is simple: an LLM writes every word spoken on air, TTS performs it, AI-generated music fills the gaps, and a boring deterministic radio pipeline keeps the whole thing alive. The weird part is it stopped feeling like a chatbot demo a while ago. It feels more like I hired five strange little night-shift employees who never sleep. The hosts: The ...