So it’s been ages since I posted or updated this blog. I don’t know what the root cause was, but life just got busy, and I didn’t have time for this blog.
Now I plan to restart blogging; the practice of learning and writing has been helpful in growing as a developer. Given that the software development landscape is changing, expect many posts on AI.
Now, if you’ve been to this blog before, you might notice it looks a little different, works a little faster, and renders a bit better. I wish I could take credit, maybe I can, but I haven’t touched a single line of code. I’ve been riffing with Claude. The LLM has done all the work, and I’ve been directing.
I’ve fixed countless bugs that crept into the previous version. I’ll be honest, that was my fault. I had left this blog to rot. It was countless versions behind the Gatsby ecosystem.
You’ll see this blog is now on Astro. It renders with zero CLS. It’s been migrated to Tailwind. For me, this has been an exercise in working with LLMs. If you haven’t read Steve Yeege’s Gas Town, here are his ‘The 8 Stages of Dev Evolution To AI’
I’m somewhere between 6 and 7. I’m still not sure how I feel about all this. We have for sure found a new way of working. I just hope token costs do not become a limiting factor. Even my fun little blog refactor has easily eaten up my 5-hour token limits in 45 minutes.
Going forward, the deal here is simple: I won’t write code for this blog again, Claude will. But every word you read is mine. No LLM drafts, no “polish this paragraph,” no ghostwritten ideas. The writing is the part I’m not outsourcing. Expect to see more posts as I stumble my way into this new AI era.