Site Improvements & Featured Posts

General
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So, today I have turned my talents at vibe coding, or perhaps I should say GitHub Copilot's talents at vibe coding, towards improving the look and feel of this web site.

Apart from security improvements, most of this so far has turned on the long-standing issue of the massive theme rewrites needed to support various other improvements and to get the latest post rendered on the actual home page, which if you're reading this, you can probably see.

Other changes will be coming in the not-to-distant future, hopefully starting with the much-asked-for random post button and the tag cloud page. But it's a start.

I'd also like to post an open invitation for those familiar with the large body of my work to nominate posts which they feel are particularly good contributors to understanding the 'verse at large to be added to the featured posts bar up there, next to "Welcome to the Empire!" and "Blue and Orange Morality".

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://eldraeverse.com/2026/04/28/site-improvements-featured-posts
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So I just saw this post and while I don’t have any nominations for featured posts, mainly because the move from Wordpress broke the search function horrifically and I can’t find many of the posts I liked best, something that ironically this change might fix, I would like to say something else.

Please be careful with vibe coding in any form. I’m not a mindless hater of AI, I think it has a lot of potential and some of that potential can be realized now, but it isn’t mature yet and vibe coding has a bad reputation for a reason, beyond just the general zeitgeist of AI stigma, it’s genuinely unreliably and can lead to catastrophic bugs and failures. Please review all “vibe coded” code yourself and trace its logic from start to finish to confirm it’s coherent. I know Eldraeverse vibe-coding is probably so dependable it isn’t worth thinking about but human AI isn’t nearly there yet and much like in the Empire, in real life any failures on the part of the nonsentient AI you trusted to do your job for you will fall solely on you, you can’t abrogate any responsibility to said AI.

I know you’re probably already taking all these precautions and this warning/plea is redundant insultingly underestimating your intelligence but given the horror stories I’ve heard about vibe-coding I’m willing to take a 99.9% chance of patronisingly telling you what you already know vs even a one in a thousand chance of you accidentally ruining the Eldraeverse website completely and irreparably because of one stupid mistake.

Please for the love of god double, triple, and preferably quadruple check your vibe-coded code and please accept my preemptive apology for the likely fact that you already have and I’m assuming a level of incompetence that likely does not exist. I just don’t want to risk the potential loss of a website that I really enjoy because some AI decided for some neural net black box reason to delete or corrupt it including the backups because that’s what AI’s do sometimes for some reason.

Why yes I do have an anxiety disorder which makes me paranoid about some unlikely scenarios that is still somewhat present despite the medication I take to regulate it, how did you know?