Automation

Let me tell you about the day I first used an LLM. I was genuinely excited. I remember thinking: this is it, this is the thing that’s going to change everything. I asked it to help me with something technical and it gave me an answer that felt almost magical. Then I spent the next three hours rewriting everything it gave me. Not because the AI was bad. It wasn’t. It was producing decent, reasonable output for a generic developer. The problem was that I’m not a generic developer, and it had no idea who I was, how I worked, or what I actually needed. ...

If you read my first post, you already know that finding time to write is always my biggest problem. I want to blog, I have ideas, but spending hours to write, format, optimize images, commit, build, and deploy? That friction kills motivation faster than a merge conflict on Friday afternoon. Then late last year, I was watching NetworkChuck’s video about his “insane blog pipeline.” He’d automated his entire blogging workflow with a single “mega script” - write in Obsidian, run the script locally, and boom: site synced, images processed, built, and deployed. ...