A client wanted to use Discourse Web Page Watermark, but it’s broken. So, on a lark, I asked the AI if it could add a watermark to the background, and it gave me CSS that I was able to paste in to the CSS of a theme component, and sure enough, it added a watermark to the page. Then I asked it if it could make it repeat, and it did that. Then I asked it if it could make it so that it would display only if the site title matched “staging” and it gave me code that I can probably make work, but it’ll take more than a simple copy/paste.
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The discussion revolves around the capabilities of the Discourse AI Helper. pfaffman successfully used the AI to add a watermark to a web page by generating CSS code, which they were able to implement with minimal effort. MarcP shares their positive experience with AI in creating theme components and suggests exploring Cursor, a tool that allows interaction with Git repositories, as a potential inspiration for a Discourse persona.
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It’s nice to see veterans exploring AI 
I made lots of small theme components with (Discourse) AI myself too. Been coding & learning a lot with AI the last 2 years, it can save so much time once you master using it.
Ps. You should try out Cursor, you’d be amazed, you can clone a git and talk with any repo! It would be nice to see if we can get similar functionality in a Discourse persona.
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