So a while back I was moving servers and in the process I managed to screw up the databases for one of the sites to where it was not recoverable.  I didn’t have the time or energy to redo things, so I just said screw it and left it by the wayside.

Yesterday I was in the hotel is boring ass Carmel, Indiana killing time before the Phish show at Deer Creek, and figured, what the hell I’ll put this back together.  But with that said, I wasn’t THAT energized to do it, so figured I would use some AI assistance. Specifically with the layout of the site.  I knew exactly what I wanted, I know how to do it manually, but I didn’t want to actually spend an hour going through lines of PHP and CSS files looking for, and editing code.

It’s a WordPress site, WordPress is open source, All of the LLMs should have all the files saved in their memory.

So first I went to ChatGPT and put in a detailed prompt explaining exactly what I wanted.  When I was done it provided a screenshot and asked if this what what I had in Mind

That was pretty much exactly what I had in mind,  So I was like Great, build this out and put it in a zip file for me to download.

Chat GPT came back and was all “Perfect I’ll do that for you right away”

But then came the next prompt there instead of doing it, it said it didn’t know how to do it properly because it doesn’t know the files.  Dude, WordPress is literally the worlds most used software for websites. But whatever, so I went and got a plain default theme package and uploaded it.

Then just endless prompts of absolute garbage. “I’d like to change this, I’d like to change that”  I don’t care what you think, I had told it what to do.  But then it kept getting confused along the way, and kept asking for files to be uploaded over and over again,

Despite being told, no joke at least 100 times to just STFU and do what it’s told, it would just keep saying the same shit over and over “Oh this seems great, before I start…. blah blah blah”

I kept telling it that it was making this all 1000 times more complicated than it needed to be. At one point, no joke wanted to build an app in Python to do this.  I know for Non-Tech people that will go over your head, but for the tech people, try to wrap your head around that.  It wanted to build a Python App to modify a WordPress theme.

Anyhow after like an hour of this nonsense, I was getting frustrated as hell, and ChatGPT would always be “Sorry my misunderstanding, now I’ve got it and we can do this easier” over and over again.

Then it was like, I can’t do the whole thing at once.  So I’m like, I don’t care, look I know there are around 50 files in a WordPress theme, I know there are only like 8 that need to be edited to make the changes I want, just do THOSE files. TO which of course it then needed the files uploaded.

But even then Still, after I told it to just STFU, do what it was told, don’t ask me any questions. It goes back to the “I think we can make this better if we do this”

By this point, I’m like an hour and 15 minutes to an hour and a half deep on something that I could have just done manually in half the time.

So I tell ChatGPT to fuck.  For shits and giggles I go over to Claude, since I already have the DNS kicked over and the Default WordPress installed on the domain.

When I go to Claude.  I put in, I shit you not.  The most absolute generic prompt in just out of frustration. I uploaded my preview pic and just asked if it would do it.  Literally

That was honest to God the only prompt I put it.  In under 30 seconds, it was done.  It was there to download, and it was exactly what I was looking for.

I felt sad, angry and embarrassed for ChatGPT.  It was like a stupid drunk chick in a bar who will not STFU. Or one of those types of co-workers who do not STFY in meetings, yet have no goddamn idea of how to do their job.  In the entire time I was in that session, well over an hour, outside of creating the preview image after my VERY FIRST PROMPT, it didn’t accomplish a single goddamn thing from that point on.  Nothing. No files were edited, nothing was updated. It accomplished nothing except pissing me off beyond belief.

Meanwhile with Claude, I have the least amount of info imaginable, and it did the entire thing, no questions asked. In under 30 seconds.