Does human collaboration get more valuable as AI floods music?

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Josh, and I've spent the last while building something for working musicians. Before I get to that, I'm genuinely curious how this community thinks about a problem I keep running into.

The hardest part of making music was never the song. It's finding the right people to make it with.

Social platforms reward follower counts over talent, most collabs start in someone's DMs and quietly die there.

The moment a project gets serious, the files, the deadlines and the payments end up scattered across five different apps.

That problem is what led me to build Seshn, a marketplace where musicians find each other by the work they do, run a project together, and get paid fairly for it. I'm not here to pitch it though.

What I actually want is to pressure-test how other people see this, because the more makers I talk to, the more I realise everyone has their own messy workaround.

So I'd love to hear from you:

• If you make music, or work with people who do, how do you currently find collaborators you trust?

• What's the most frustrating part of finding and working with the right people online today?

• For anyone who's tried existing tools or communities for this, what actually worked and what completely missed the mark?

• And a bigger one: as AI makes it easier than ever to generate music, do you think human collaboration becomes more valuable or less?

I'll be in the comments all day and happy to share what I've learned building in this space if it's useful. Keen to hear how others think about it.