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jen729w | on: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Okay. I rebuilt my website in ~a month with the help of Opus 4.7/.8 and it would have taken me, unaided human, at least 6 months. Link's in my bio if you care.

Satisfied now? Will you stop asking this question? Thought not.

ofjcihen | parent | next
So look. I’m not trying to be a dick I promise.

But I took a look at your site and I don’t know if a month would be impressive for a new and unaided dev. It looks nice but yeah.

If you’re not a dev that’s totally cool but like… all I’m saying is this may not hit like you want it to.

SepiaSapient | parent | next
I'm looking at something fairly standard that can be made with a SSG. The "Written by humans" footer gave a good chuckle tho.
jen729w | root | parent | next
I use Astro but it's not static, I server-render. There's a whole bunch of other stuff once you're signed in.
kelsier_hathsin | parent | next
Seriously a month? I could write a SSG itself to produce this site in a month.
slopinthebag | parent | next
I could have written this site plus the browser to render it in six months...
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ai_fry_ur_brain | parent
Why would this have taken 6 months? No offense, but this is a few days work without llms (assuming the content already exists). This should not have taken a month.

Also, not trying to be an asshole. Props for not making it look like every other llm generated slop site, Its just not a great example.

spunker540 | root | parent
I asked claude to crawl the website and summarize its findings, took about 10minutes. I'm not sure I would've done it faster, but i have no doubt you couldve done it in 5, and grokked the pages faster than an llm too. but anyway heres what claude said:

  Based on what I already saw across those 2,924 pages, here's the summary:

  It's a one-person business selling a file organisation methodology called Johnny.Decimal. Three paid products (personal, business, university/course tier). A substantial blog — 200+ posts, updated weekly. Full documentation for the system. A support knowledge base.

  The technical ambition is higher than the aesthetic suggests. One person built auth, payments, entitlement-gated downloads, a CLI, an API, AI tooling, self-hosted analytics, self-hosted email (Listmonk on PikaPods), personalized search, and keyboard navigation with server-synced state. Then wrote 200 blog posts about using the system in real life. 

  The "Written by humans" footer is not a boast about the font. It's a position statement from someone who has thought carefully about AI, published an essay about it, and is making a deliberate choice. Every word on the site was written by the creator. Whether you agree with the choice or not, that's not the same as someone who slapped a SSG together.
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