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I am a lawyer who never coded. The AI helped me put my own blog online.

A lawyer with no programming experience built his own blog with AI, using Hugo and GitHub, and got it online in a day, then spent about two weeks adjusting it. He also set up a flow that shares each new post to his Mastodon and Bluesky accounts on its own.

How it works

  1. Talks with AI in chat and explains what he wants
  2. The AI helps build the blog with Hugo and GitHub
  3. Blog goes live in one day and is adjusted over about two weeks
  4. A flow is added that shares new posts to Mastodon and Bluesky automatically

Why it’s worth knowing

He had never written code, but talking with AI was enough to get a working blog online that also shares his posts by itself.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on rcapitao.com. See the original ↗

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