Claude and I
- 14 April 2026
- News
After spending many irritating hours with ChatGPT and Copilot, I finally tried out Claude. I told it to update photos of mathematicians from a derelict Perl script to a shiny new Python script with JSON, face recognition and modern CSS. It worked like a charm! I am never going back to the other two, sleazy up-sucking generators of mediocrity.
My appetite grew. I asked Claude to spiff up my blog, reinstate comments, and fix old MathML formulas that did not work anymore. Once again, the process was very smooth. For comments it recommended Giscus which requires a GitHub account for posting a comment; I consider this to be an acceptable spam-fighting measure. The comments appearing on the blog are also present at the GitHub Discussions in the blog repository.
I just wanted to say that I am back in business with photos of mathematicians and blog posts!