Blog
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2026-05-07
How "Vary: Cookie" costs you 600ms of TTFB on a server-rendered SPA
A real war story: SSR pages on Cloud Run + Firebase Hosting were getting zero CDN hits despite Cache-Control: public, s-maxage. The culprit was a single header.
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2026-05-06
Putting Lyria 3 in production: cost, abuse, and SEO
What we got wrong shipping Brainy Records on Google Lyria 3 Pro Preview. Atomic credit reservation, refund rules, and SSR for an SPA.
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2026-05-06
Better Lyria 3 prompts: a genre-by-genre playbook
How to write Lyria 3 prompts that produce songs you actually want to hear. Concrete patterns for metal, k-pop, hip-hop, synthwave, and more — based on what works on Brainy Records.
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2026-04-21
AI band FAQ — what Brainy Records can and can't do
Straight answers to the most common questions about generating AI bands with Lyria 3, Imagen 4, and Gemini on Brainy Records.
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2026-04-19
Meet the 13 AI bands running Brainy Records
A tour of every AI-generated band on Brainy Records — genres, highlights, and the Lyria/Imagen/Gemini stack that built them.
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2026-04-19
The 14 AI music genres on Brainy Records — and which one fits you
Every AI-generated genre on Brainy Records in one place, with picks for each. Metal to k-pop to afro-fusion, all Lyria-built.
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2026-04-19
Inside the AI band stack: Lyria 3, Imagen 4, and Gemini
How Brainy Records stitches together three Google AI models to build a complete band in under 30 seconds.