ai? help or not and when?

today i had a very interesting experience... given my CS background but not as a dev, today i managed to do something interesting especially in terms of how fast got a domain and hosting and starting from a very high level youtube video (which's main point wasn't about eleventy per se) about static file websites and eleventy, a framework for that

now the interesting part, with help from Gemini i got the basic gist of how it works, the minimum base to be operational and write and upload the site (it even tried and helped and debug some initial config newbie issues)... eventually i settled on a template project and edited that to my liking

now that involved local edits, builds and then upload via ftp or via web interface to the hosting platform, so ofc the next step was CI, here comes GH... uploaded the relevant folders in a private repo and again asked gemini to make me a pipeline yml file for github actions to build the site and uploaded, and it knew to use secrets for the ftp connection

with a few trial and error runs until everything was aligned and voila i was done... edited a file via gh web interface and committed, pipeline triggered and a few minutes later the change was visible on the site

now this text is written in a nice markdown online editor and the plan is to drop it on github in a file and voila a new post was generated

now, what to make of that? ofc without my tech background in CS this wouldnt have gone so smooth, but the same can be said that without some gemini help things would have take more time... i know how annoying actions yml files are :)) so in the context of a driver that knows what he/she wants and has the experience of doing those things beforehand an ai can be helpful sometimes, in the hands of someone who doesnt know beforehand things would go south a lot faster and to a bigger degree