After my tokens ran out I realized how valuable hand-coding is
Gatsby dead (and stinky)
It was all seeming so easy. Gatsbyjs appeares to be no longer maintained after an acquisition by netlify, and I have had endless problems with its ecosystem lock-in. I was prompting up a storm, asking the LLM (gpt-5.4) to enumarate the features of my site, then to propose a migration to next.js + contentlayer
TODO: look up exact session prompt
It mentioned that contentlayer was poorly maintained, and my independent research showed that next.js is heavily tied into vercel, and proposed astro-js. Yea, sounds good!
Prompting up a docs!
In another session I asked it to take the summary of work,
Start fresh contexts to
Through several rounds of revisions and handing docs off between models I had an execution plan in place, and started the classic “Execute step 1” prompts
Token Loss
Token Loss, The Grok era
And after stage 1, 2, and 3 I… ran out of weekly rate cap in my copilot subscription. I attempted to use grok to make any headway, but it fell into very familiar rounds of thinking with little actual progress. It was not able to comprehend the tasks I asked of it despite the copious documentation I had slopped out.