went on a small side quest this morning and added an AI Mode toggle to my blog posts
e.g. https://www.zachleat.com/web/adventures-in-date-parsing/

Also posted to Bluesky.
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@zachleat such delightful madness.
@zachleat ahahahahahahah
😈😈😈
Oh, this is amazing!
@zachleat bUt yOu lEarNed tHiNgs frOm oThEr pEoPle so yOu'Re jUst lIKe tHe LLMs
@jaredwhite on my worst days I feel like a human autocomplete (with a smidge of pesky morality thrown in)
this is using a <squirm-inal> Web Component from 2021: github.com/zachleat/squ...
2021-vintage Web Components are React 17-era. No big refactors or rewrites required.
this is using a <squirm-inal> Web Component from 2021: https://github.com/zachleat/squirminal/
2021-vintage Web Components are React 17-era. No big refactors or rewrites required.
Oh no how do i turn it off 😅
there’s no going back
@zachleat So you count how often it gets clicked vs. visits to the page?
@lennybacon the toggle is for me and only me
@zachleat But I can see it! And I could toggle it. But I do not want to! Really not.
@lennybacon for the record, it doesn’t persist anywhere or do anything other than an animation
@zachleat Awwww… really, I would be so curious how many ppl click it.
We live in wild times
@lennybacon I’ll add that later after I raise a seed round for this first
@zachleat And it can only be enabled/used if I subscribe to the premium features of your blog!
This is how I learned it from the best!
Thought process:
1. why would you add the mode in the first place
2. Hang on this is Zach
3. I wonder what it actually does
4. Heh, nice4. Oh no you can’t turn it off once you turn it on!!
5. Knowing Zach (and AI features), I bet that’s intentional…truly a pandora’s box model problem
@zachleat Brilliant. Went on a short rollercoaster ride from WTF to laughter when I clicked through and saw this.
@damianwalsh :D yessssss
@zachleat Probably not fully exact anymore, but I did that this year.
@karlcow next Halloween I will go as Date.parse, which is very scary
For extra realism, enable it at random every few weeks and give the user 3 "opt-out credits" per year
I dont know how much time you put into this Zach
but it was absolutely worth it.
not much time at all! I had an old web component that I repurposed that progressively renders text nodes in HTML github.com/zachleat/squ...
similar to work here www.zachleat.com/web/queue-co... and used on your-year-on.netlify.com
What a day to not be in the "dislike" beta.
I don’t know what this is but I can hallucinate a probable outcome in my brain