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"Dimwitted" author here. Sorry for making people upset. The text content of the blog is all hand-written by me, not AI, although I do use AI (Stability) to create the header images.

I started the blog recently because I wanted to separate out coding stuff from my personal blog (link in profile if you're interested) into its own place. I prefer to list just my first name only but my surname is Davis if that helps with investigation. My wife took that photo a couple of months ago for my profile so no, it's probably not in image searches yet. I don't link my CV because I'm not looking for work and don't want to share too much personal info.

As for the post, I live in Japan and go to a 接骨院 which I assumed was chiropractor, but maybe osteopath is a better translation. I didn't realise there was a difference and should have researched before posting. Sorry. I've updated the post.

I still stand by the recommendations though, as they've helped me overall, and I've suffered from not following my own advice.

Sorry, I wouldn't have been so harsh had I not suspected the entire blog was AI spam. Good luck with your back. (And please do at least some basic resistance training, even just once a week.)

> The text content of the blog is all hand-written by me, not AI, although I do use AI (Stability) to create the header images.

Well, you can't really fault people for suspecting you're using AI for other things too, can you? It's almost a form of gaslighting. You also apparently did an AI-generated podcast? (According to your profile.)

Just what an AI would say... /s

Yes, in particular this statement in the about page:

> The text on this site is hand-written by me (a human),

Surely humans don't need to point out this explicitly that they're human!

Or, with less sarcasm: I can't imagine how one could detect that AI was or wasn't used to generate a website, since that's an excellent use-case.

I just added that sentence to the About page a couple of hours ago, to hopefully clear up the confusion. Maybe I’ve just added to it? I don’t know what to do now, but suffice to say I’m a real person.

You deserve points for your effort to convince random people online that you’re really a human. :)

I know the author personally and he is in fact very real, and very well intentioned.

Take it easy!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

IIRC, chiropractors empirically can/do provide short-term pain relief, just not long-term fixes. And short-term pain relief is a reasonable thing to want.

It's on the front page because it was upvoted and other things were upvoted less at this time.

There is also a linked Youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gi7nMuyUc4

He looks real.

I stand corrected. However, I still think he's using GPT to generate much of his content, and at most doing some post-hoc editing of it.

It's hand-written by me although I'm sure the writing style could be improved a lot. My process for the tutorial posts is to come up with the simplest functional code I can (admittedly using ChatGPT to double-check it), and then write the text around the code examples. I try to keep the text relatively simple so that a) the code does the talking, and b) non-native English speakers can still understand.

Yep, real. It's me.

The articles dated July 2 and 6th are both about how to hide api keys and say basically the same thing. The header images all look like they came from the same base prompt. And, just for icing, the rest of the posts are all about how to use chatGPT

Author here. I did the first API key hiding post (and accompanying video) for local code, but got a question about how to hide API keys when deploying code remotely. I couldn't update the original video so I decided to create a new one instead, and accompanying post, and then link them to each other.

For the header images, I use Stability and yes, use the same base prompt so they all have a consistent feel.

The posts so far are about using the GPT API because there was a positive reaction to an initial post I put out, so I expanded on that. I wanted to have a specific focus rather than just learning Python in general. It's still early days for the site so I'm still finding my way.

I'm starting to find posts that inquire if something is AI-written to be more annoying, even more so when they're wrong.

If you have to ask, just don't.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion

Unfortunately, this trend is only going to get worse

Author here. It's hand-written, not AI-generated, although the header images are (Stability).

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