Daniel Lemire used Grok to add code-block comments to a 20-year-old blog
lemire · x · 2026-07-24
Daniel Lemire says he used AI to solve a long-running problem on his 20-year-old blog: adding support for code in comments.
- He did not let AI write the code; instead, he used Grok to help choose the right implementation.
- The site remains a clunky WordPress blog, but the new workflow finally made the feature workable.
- The post is essentially an anecdote about using AI as a decision aid for a real maintenance task, not as a full rewrite of the stack.
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