Maybe this time
I really did think two years ago that I was going to get the website up and running. I really did. I think I even got kind of close, but not close enough. But now I think it might really happen, so I’m writing another post1.
1 I think part of the reason I am motivated again is that for the first time in a while I have my own personal computer that I am explicitly not using for work. This has to do with some changes in policies at work, but also the fact that I could get a cute little MacBook Neo, and dang if it isn’t cute and fun. Blue, if you were wondering.
If you look at the code here, you will see that this time around I got some help with rewriting the code using Claude. Specifically, I got it to help with the long-planned and long-delayed transition from Jekyll to Quarto.
What I did not do (and specifically banned in my AGENTS.md file) is any AI assistance with writing content. Everything you see as content is written by me, with some possible use of autocomplete suggestions within code blocks.
I can imagine a time when I may include some more AI-written code sections, but honestly I have some doubts about the extent to which I will include code much at all. I had some plans to do that a couple of years ago (see my post about path stripping), but writing code is usually well handled by LLMs, so it seems a bit pointless these days. On the other hand, the code I see the LLMs writing is often not really well done, so maybe more good examples are worth the effort. Not that my code is always good! I just had a look back through the code I had written for my biostats class and let’s just say I wouldn’t teach with that code these days. So we’ll see.
I’m kind of hopeful that I will be inspired to write some more, but I have been hopeful before.