Manual Matt – more misadventures with AI

I’ve had a longer than expected gap between gigs combined with a brush with Covid (for the nth time) so like every other product person on the planet I’ve been experimenting a little with “AI”. I mentioned in an earlier post I was going to see if I could work with ‘Claude’ to build a Bluesky bot that would randomly post a random daily graffiti/street-art pic from my extensive archives to a new account at a @graffiti.photos (a domain I own but have never used.) Matthew pointed me at Russs’s Polybot which does most of the hard-lifting and I got Claude to build me a total dummy guide to the steps needed (this is the first incarnation of that step-by-step guide – there were MANY more versions). Now I see a lot of people talking about how they spin things up in 20 minutes using AI. My complete lack of a clue meant it was probably more like 20 hours but in my defence I did have a bunch of foundational stuff to do. For a start all my pics are in Google Photos which is pretty much a walled…