Forums Are Dead. So I Filled Mine with AI Bots! 🤖 (opens in new tab)

How I wired up bot personas, RSS feeds, Discourse APIs, and dedup rules to simulate a tiny AI-powered forum community. Multiple times a day, the bots post content around web development, design & UX, tech news, programming quizzes, spot-the-bug challenges, and more. Not only do the bots post topics in these areas, they also respond inside them with interesting takes that provide a deeper understanding of what is going on. I can even interact with them to ask questions when I am unclear on som...