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Building without building

I just spent 48 hours building a new site using a new process (detailed a bit below): you-are-here.space.

The motivations:

  1. I’ve always loved the Show HN projects that people built on a whim over a weekend. So it’s been a bucket list item for me, but I had no muse yet…

  2. I was watching NOVA a few nights ago and learned about how Saturn pulled Jupiter away from the inner solar system. The thought has been brewing in me for a while on just how many things conspired to have everything work out for us to be here. So I was thankful to Saturn…and then on a whim, late at night, I typed this in ChatGPT:

ChatGPT as source control

In my normal use of Chat GPT, I’ve started behaving as if it’s source control when I have code generated. It’s a place I can go back to a point in time if something broke.

It’s not robust, doesn’t have a GUI/CLI specifically for that purpose, is lightyears behind git, but regardless, I find myself using it that way.

Of course I still use and depend on git for anything serious, but it’s fun to noodle new world scenarios.

Using ChatGPT for creative purposes

I was having ChatGPT do some anagrams for me on a username I use and I also had it do the same on ‘Nikolai Tesla’. At first, it just generated 10 replies, but easy enough to just ask for 50. That was pretty solid…it didn’t break a sweat however I did get a Creating 50 unique and meaningful combinations from those letters is quite challenging warning. So then, on a whim, I asked it to write a story with only the letters in ‘Nikolai Tesla’ (note, it’s not 100% perfect - while the majority of letters are in the name, a few aren’t, but with lower frequency):

Stop Skynet

Start early, start now.

Say please and thank you to ChatGPT and any other conversational AI.

Don’t be a jackass.