Mastodawn

I'm thinking about getting a Claude subscription, because there is something I want to exist in the world that I do not have the expertise or real time to put creative effort into, but I still want it to exist -- basically a website for a very specific repository of knowledge for a very specific audience.

I feel like this is an okay use, but still hesitate because it still makes me feel dirty.

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Craig P Mar 29

@fuzzybinary if you don't have the expertise to do it, Claude doesn't either. You're just guaranteeing you won't be able to tell.

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Jeff Ward Mar 29

@Craigp This is true, but it will produce something. And for something simple that's mostly a collection of content, that's probably fine.

I have "expertise" in the content, my HTML, CSS, etc, is what's lacking.

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Miguel Arroz Mar 29

@fuzzybinary @Craigp I've built a simple website recently for my app (papervault.eu). My HTML/CSS was also very rusty and outdated. Asking things to ChatGPT when I couldn't find it easily on Google (not “make me the website" but “how do I do X”) helped a lot and the free account was enough. I'm sure with just a few searches you can get everything you need and build a pretty decent website, without subscribing to Claude.

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Jeff Ward

@arroz @Craigp I think my biggest struggle is not the html and css, though that's a thing, it's how to make it look good. AI can *kinda* help with that, if only by copying common patterns, which it's good at.