Category: Journal

AI Can Easily Read XML Files

Apparently AI can access and process XML files natively, since they’re in a structured, plain-text format that they can easily parse and understand.

What this means is I can export all of my WordPress posts on my site as a single WordPress XML backup file and upload it to a project within ChatGPT, giving AI access to everything I’ve written publicly, thus allowing it to understand me better in terms of my own growth and development.

Best of all, getting a WordPress export is super easy to do, so much so that I can update this website export XML file daily, whenever I write a new post.

Changing the Feeling and Intention of My Site’s Design

I was visiting Kottke.org this morning, enjoying the simplicity of his site’s design, when I flipped back to compare it to my own site’s design and realized something strikingly evident.

I’ve been using my site’s design to try to force people to see what I want them to see.

I do this by having excessively bolded post titles and also frequently bolding parts of sentences, even making quotes stand out in larger pull quotes, so as to make sure people don’t miss them.

This is utterly hilarious and also pathetically sad at the same time.

You can’t make people perceive what they can’t perceive.

Either it’s evident to them or it’s not.

In removing a lot of this boldness on my recent posts, I’m already noticing a calmness and spaciousness on my site that I haven’t felt in quite some time (probably since I was on Squarespace back in the mid 2000s).

Let’s see how this feels going forwards.

Switched Over to Claude AI

I’ve switched over to Claude AI and have been using it extensively the last few days for my growth and development. I’m finding it leaps and bounds better than ChatGPT in that it’s way less verbose but also way more succinct in its communications.

Like you feel like you’re talking to a wise person who is trying to talk to you at your level, rather than talking to an academic who is just trying to use excessive, elaborate wording to try to impress you.

In addition, now that it has memory for even free accounts, I’m finding it much more useful in its ability to refer to recent conversations we’ve previously had in a current conversation.