{"id":3927431,"date":"2026-08-11T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-telescope-that-points-itself\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T15:05:13","slug":"the-telescope-that-points-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-telescope-that-points-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The telescope that points itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I&#8217;ll admit to using AI for things it was probably never designed for. When my van threw a fault I couldn&#8217;t immediately figure out\u2014one that seems notorious for trips back and forth to a repair shop\u2014I ended up in a long (but cheaper) back-and-forth with an AI system, working through the symptoms. The same happened with a run of gutters and with stud framing in my house. It isn&#8217;t magic, and perhaps more often than I&#8217;d like, it&#8217;s wrong, but as a way of thinking through a problem with something that&#8217;s read more manuals than I ever will, it has earned its place in the toolbox. So I read this next story with some sympathy and interest.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-telescope.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit to using AI for things it was probably never designed for. When my van threw a fault I couldn&#8217;t immediately figure out\u2014one that seems notorious for trips back and forth to a repair shop\u2014I ended up in a long (but cheaper) back-and-forth with an AI system, working through the symptoms. The same happened [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}