Brian Parsons

One of the reasons that this site doesn’t get updated much is that the articles / blog was being powered by outdated software, Blogofile using Mako templates.

Getting around to picking a new engine and template just never made it to the top of my list. We now have AI coding assistants, though. This seemed like maybe a good project for Claude.

I asked Claude to examine the site which was in two different repositories (one for the site, another for the blog), and make a recommendation. I did specify that I would like to write posts in markdown. Claude picked Hugo and even thought the migration would be relatively simple, so I let it take a shot.

I had to clean some things up myself but overall it did a good job of migrating things. Of course it tried to replace my custom form mailer with a vendor. Product placement in generative AI is definately going to be a thing.