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Looking for a Replacement

So I recently found out that Hugo uses AI for development (these are just a few examples I and others found). I'm really disappointed about this, because I've been using Hugo for my site for nearly 6 years at this point and loved it. But I am not at all interested in anything developed with AI, at least that now that I know about it. It's really frustrating because I don't want to switch.

I've looked at some other static site generators, such as Eleventy. All I really want is something I can throw my existing Markdown posts at, and not have to do too much modification. Eleventy seems extremely complicated, though. I also came across Cobalt tonight, which seems closer to what I'm looking for. But it's almost too barebones. It is also extremely picky about dates; it asks for the field published_date in the format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.sssssssss TZ. So I've had to do ls -l --full-time on my existing posts and copy over the string from that. It's not a big deal, but it's a little confusing.

Still, Cobalt is a frontrunner. But I am having trouble finding any kind of theming for it, and I don't know enough HTML, or any CSS to speak of, to theme it myself. I may have to look at others also.

It's a work in progress. For now I'll keep using Hugo, but it's not ideal, and I would like to find something else if possible. I'm just frustrated that so many projects seem to be using AI willy-nilly and don't care about all the issues it causes and brings up.