Is it simple yet?
2025-10-23 19:13:27 +01:00 by Mark Smith
It occurred to me today that in yesterday’s piece about how to build a social media auto-poster using Github Actions, although I did mention that Gemini was doing it’s best to go down every possible dead end, I wasn’t very specific about what those dead ends were. Gemini absolutely loves making things more complex than things need to be. We were at one point exploring using sqlite databases and all sorts. But you don’t need any of that.
You have to keep pressing for the simplest possible solution, but you do have to explore some of the more complex things first, and then circle back and say hey Gem, this all seems way way too complex, how can we drastically simplify it. And then it does actually suggest some good solutions.
All that to say, if you just want to post a few things to social media you really don’t need to save anything complicated. You can do it with just the features available in Github Actions. #