Preamble
Before I express my thoughts, I want to clarify that this blog post will be reviewed, revised, and improved with the help of Grammarly's AI. Although I've been cautious about relying on AI to enhance my writing, I recognize that my dyslexia and ongoing grammar challenges impact my writing ability. However, I'm skilled at organizing my ideas to convey a message. In the context of this post, I see AI as a helpful tool, similar to wearing glasses, that aids me in communicating and interacting with the Drupal community. Nothing in this post is generated by AI through prompts. My inspiration for sharing these thoughts came from attending DrupalCon Atlanta.
Background
Like many people, I am skeptical and hesitant about using AI in my day-to-day tasks, but this is about to change. Until recently, my daily use of AI was limited to using PHPStorm's AI assistant to suggest or look up some code occasionally. Frequently, I’d smirk at its hallucinations and never ask the AI assistant to correct itself.\
At DrupalCon Barcelona, I was impressed by the demo of Drupal CMS' AI capabilities, but I did not attend any AI sessions. A month after DrupalCon, I had breakfast in Brooklyn with Jamie, co-founder of FreelyGive and one of Drupal's AI evangelists. We discussed improving the sustainability of the AI module's ecosystem based on my experience with the Webform module's sustainability. At the same time, I sensed from his excitement that the possibilities with Drupal and AI were limitless.
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