As It Was
To my dearest readers (myself), a prophecy foretold many moons ago came true. As a reckless, hedonistic selfless self, I sought the joy of newer technology. Wordpress? Nah. Ghost CMS? Yea. But soon like the many choices I ended up making, this one turned out to suit me less as well. Don’t get me wrong; Ghost was my first love and will always hold a special place in my heart. But Wordpress? It started as an innocent endeavour, hey let’s see how the rest of the world runs their blogs. Oh, I can easily migrate Ghost to Wordpress - let’s give it a shot.
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Turns out, I made a bad decision worse. Wordpress looked very appealing, enticing and it promised things that Ghost couldn’t natively. But the shame, it wasn’t Ghost. It could never be. Wordpress was my rebound. Wordpress was too relaxed with me. The customizations were too much. I needed space.
As It Became
After a horrificly long and stretched-out breakup with Wordpress (read: I never got to actually go live with that one, as I couldn’t be bothered customizing it), a process that spanned for over 4 months, I decided I was ready to fall in love again.
But with whom? With what? Was there something out of the box that could satisfy me? Would I ever be satisfied? Am I Alexander Hamilton in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s play? Am I running out of time?
Turns out, no I’m not. I’m just dramatic.
In the past, I used to host my own SSG blog using Hugo. It was a marvelous thing. Static websites always are. Yet it wasn’t love. I wasn’t committed. I never could to Hugo.
I went looking for options, more rebounds. It became an addiction. I needed something new, better faster and stronger. But it never came. The cycle, it was vicious and never ending. I did the one thing I swore I would never do.
Core Value Betrayal
I consulted AI. AI promised me things Ghost, Wordpress and all the others never could. It promised me, the selfless act of doing things for me. It turned a project that would’ve lasted me at minimum a month, a day. I became the 10x engineer. I am the 10x engineer. I have become the thing I never thought I would be. The AI prompt-engineer. I threw commands at Cursor. It threw results at me. I became addicted. I wanted to save money. Now I’m 20k in debt to Cursor (read: 20 bucks).
I went from scum of the earth analyst to product owner, manager and senior executive. The best part? It listened to me. It fixed things I didn’t know I wanted fixed. I threw the technical requirements at it and it listened. I wanted Astro? It gave me Astro.
But Lorenzo, what about the security risks of AI generated code? That’s the beauty of a static website. What security risks? Aside from supply chain attacks (which would still be rather limited on a SSG) - there’s none I consider big.
As It Went
Now that Cursor generated most of what I wanted in <1d, I am done using it. It was nice to me. It was good but my end goal was always to have something representative of me. Does AI represent me? No but the ideas I had, was brought over and even improved. No harm no foul, right? If we exclude the environment, data centers using electricity (which some of the town’s residents can’t use), but hey the means justify the end, right? Right?