Setting up the tech blog
I guess I am a bit of a stickler but, I still can’t seem to get everything that I want… I tried switching to another theme ‘blowfish’ then I gave up because I felt like that’s too complicated or almost the same as starting the whole process over from scratch.
Also, if you are reading this and thinking ‘AI should not be used for this’… yeah, I used it. Still super intensely difficult. It helped to get it running but, fine tuning is out the window. I don’t care to bother with ’learning correctly’ or any such nonsense. I need things to be basically automatic. I hate coding. I hate reading manuals. And I don’t think that’s strange. It’s probably about average for any person.
Other than being totally impossible, it’s working out pretty good. My posts are getting indexed on Google within only a few hours, so that’s a good sign in my books. So, I think if I just keep my expectations a lot lower and try to ease into the flow of this more subtly, maybe that will be for the best.
I will have to do some reading somewhere along the line but, after working so many hard hours working towards writing a vanilla js program (HDUB Pixel Art Edition), don’t blame me for trying to cheat in every possible way. I just hate coding so much right now. I find it so boring and I am assuming that if I know my own code well enough, I should be able to knock out a few freebies with AI. I know a lot of people are against that, especially on Mastodon. I have a bit of an explanation for that seemingly predominant view…
Why does Mastodon seem to frown upon the use of AI?
To me this seems like the subject of a whole new post but, I’ve already started rambling on through this one. So, allow me to continue…
Mastodon is a high concentration of technical experts and programmers. I assume the majority of those people are working their field, and are somewhere along the leading-edge, or working on something competitive or somewhat different or new. To me there isn’t much of a mystery when we see that some expert company or notable person uses AI and fails. The story then goes viral on Mastodon and we all assume that AI is useless and all who use it should be shunned from society.
But, there is more than one story here.
There are the experts, and then there are the non-experts.
When I say non-experts, assume I am including people who couldn’t even touch any kind of code before, and were never capable of doing certain things with the computer. Whether because of lack of effort, ability, or just a completely different career-path, they have no ability with computers. Or like myself, they have completely ignored it, and find it excruciatingly boring.
No matter how ‘useless’ anyone says AI is, we must admit, at the low end we see an uptick in the base capability. There are people who before couldn’t even touch the computer, and now have a very good chance of being able to get some functionality happening.
For the experts who are declaring AI to be completely useless, abhorrent, etc, they are also correct. From the expert perspective you are correct, this tool does nothing for you. You are working on the leading-edge, perhaps making something new, and probably using a method that no one else is using. AI does nothing for the leading-edge where innovative/non-standard codework is necessary.
For someone who is not an expert, they couldn’t even do anything before this.
So, I guess what I am saying here is, why would anyone forbiddingly suggest that a non-expert person should, for some reason, not use AI, and should instead go straight into abusive self-study of something that could probably be done in seconds if you just ask. I think that it’s pretty safe to say that if you could determine how to do something by reading a giant book about a programming language, you probably don’t have to read the book at all. The AI already read it and several others. None of the information in that book is new. It’s all old. Nothing about the code or computer setup that a non-expert is trying to have is new.
They are just trying to get the same things that have been lorded over them this whole time.
Don’t begrudge the baseline for the little guy.