{"id":243,"date":"2026-02-22T13:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/a-late-start\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T18:34:59","slug":"a-late-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/22\/a-late-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A Late Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a bit of a late start this morning. I thought it would be nice to have a \u201cspecial\u201d breakfast with my honey, Denisse. By special, I mean McDonald\u2019s. It was nice for her to have a Sausage McMuffin meal and I enjoyed a Chicken McGriddle meal. It\u2019s a nice breakfast on a rainy morning. I\u2019m so not looking forward to the oncoming blizzard. I hope they fuck up this forecast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really want to spend time building my business today. I want to give Claude Code a go. I\u2019ll vibe code themes for my business and store. I really hate AI, but in a lot of ways, it helps lower the entry barriers for new businesses. Web design can be very expensive. If Claude Code could do this for me, I\u2019d benefit tremendously. There\u2019s no way I could afford to pay a web designer right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have the advantage of being an IT professional so I can setup my own infrastructure. A part of me wonders what hiring someone to code a WordPress and WooCommerce theme but I don\u2019t want to give it to an Indian company. I\u2019d rather use AI than offshore. I wonder what US-based independent designers are charging nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I feel morally and ethically troubled by using AI knowing that I\u2019m putting somebody out of work. But I just don\u2019t have the money right now to consider other options and I need to get things done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of a late start this morning. I thought it would be nice to have a \u201cspecial\u201d breakfast with my honey, Denisse. By special, I mean McDonald\u2019s. It was nice for her to have a Sausage McMuffin meal and I enjoyed a Chicken McGriddle meal. It\u2019s a nice breakfast on a rainy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}