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I Have a Confession: I Built This Site with AI – Please Forgive Me

43 points · 48 comments · joelberger

  1. SmasherEpilepti · · focus · HN ↗
    > I wouldn't be using this if I could avoid it really. I don't use the "gig economy" at all. I don't use crypto either. But in this case, I couldn't beat them, so I had to join them.

    > But until then, just to keep up, I have now learned to make a website using AI.

    Come on, man. You could have taken the extra time to learn it and do it yourself. I use LLMs for development at work (and I do kind of hate what it's done to the process of discovery and joy in puzzle solving; this is why I still do my hobby programming without LLMs), but your typewriter website didn't have to be done on an enterprise schedule. This is like taking photos and using a printer to do your "painting" because you have to "keep up". It's a hobby, you definitely don't have to "keep up".

    edit: I'm not commenting on the moral quandary here, but if you don't want to or have to do something, why do it anyway and feel bad about it?

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