September 5, 2025

A promenade with Q. Building a social share toolbar.

Explorations in Prompt Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. This post is attempt number 2 asking Q to add a social share toolbar to my blog and evaluate its decisions.

This post is part 2 of using AI to add a social media share toolbar to each post in this blog. My first attempt getting Q to build a social share toolbar was successful, but an architectural disaster. Instead of being specific about what I wanted, Q was given a long leash. Free to roam and intepret as it pleased, leading to less than ideal decisions. This time I walk Q hand-in-hand through the flowery meads to our final destination. I also arrive at an unexpectedly optimistic conclusion about Q and its potential.

July 18, 2025

A dialogue with Q. Build a social share toolbar.

Explorations in Prompt Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. In this post I ask Q to add a social share toolbar to my blog and evaluate its decisions.

I’ve been using Q at work for non-programming related purposes with mixed success. Primarily I’ve treated Q as 1) a rubber duck 2) an internal search replacement and 3) document summary and content evaluator. I figured it was about time I evaluate it on its coding merits, so I’ve asked it to add a social media share toolbar to each blog post.

First the prompt:

Create a “share this post” toolbar that displays on top of each page that allows the visitor to share a post to facebook, X, reddit, and linkedIn. The share this post toolbar should be displayed in a horizontal toolbar above the post image.