Like everyone else, I’ve been playing with AI a lot lately. I’m always building things, and sometimes it is difficult to find the time to write about the things that I build, because the writing time comes at the expense of building time. Hence the scarcity of recent posts in my blog.

I think that AI can help with this, but I don’t want to use AI to write my blog for me. This blog has always been written by me and I don’t want to muddy the water with AI content here. Nonetheless, I would like to start using AI to write about the things I’m doing, building, and learning, because that is better, I think, than not posting anything at all. So I decided to start an experiment using AI to help craft blog posts about my projects in a separate blog, which I call “Steve’s Ghostwriter”.

That blog is written in the third person, to emphasize that it is not my voice, and sometimes it may take on a flair that only AI can provide, such as writing in the style of Lord of the Rings, as I’ve done in my first post.

For full disclosure, I have appended the original prompts that I used to generate the post to the end, so that you can see what portions are “me”, and what portions are filled in by AI. My intention is to do this in every post, but since this is only my first dip of the toe into these waters, I may decide to adjust course once the raft is afloat.

So for my first blog post, I decided to share about a new IDE I’ve been developing for my own use.

Here it is, for your reading enjoyment: Of the Forging of Litecode