I met a new AI, one for coders. I asked it to go look at this blog and then design a dead simple version of it. In about eighty lines of code total, it came back with this:

By comparison this one page in the current WordPress installation has many tens of thousands of lines, and (thus) vast additional functionality using tools like PHP and Javascript.

Is that better?

No, I don’t think it is at all.

On the metrics that matter to me, most of that functionality is … bloat.

I don’t know what I’ll do about that yet.

I do know that anyone who bothers with taking an HTML class like the semester-long ones I taught for years is … well let’s just say … not making very efficient use of their time.

Or their money either, what with the cost of an alleged education these days.

I am glad that I took the time to teach myself these things all those years ago. I’m also glad that I made a good living for a little while because I knew what I knew.

But kids … there’s a much easier way now. Maybe not quite as good a way, but not that much worse, considering the efficiencies factor.

So let the buyer beware, when it comes to yer book-learnin’.

About this. About anything. Selah.