Creating this site with AI
TL;DR — I needed a public space to keep documenting my progress and my thoughts in a tidy fashion. I built this site with AI. I won’t write my entries with AI though. Don’t take my word for it, read and judge yourself.
I felt like I needed a site or blog or some online presence where I could present my work and especially my work-in-progress. My own notes are kinda messy and with AI help they totally get out of hand.
A public place to share my thoughts will hopefully force me to slow down a bit, summarize my thoughts and progress and write myself without the AI doing it. I might use an AI to proofread but everything you read here is first typed by myself.
But the site itself .. well, I did use a lot of AI.
- Used Claude to draft three design directions. I gave it a few sites I liked and it took about 10 minutes and lots of tokens to come up with something. Not bad at all. I refined it a little bit,
- and then asked it to write implementation instructions for Claude Code (or any other AI for that matter - I just happen to have a Claude subscription at this point).
- I put the instructions in Backlog.md and asked Claude to /grill-me and refine the implementation details - the instructions contained a lot of really specific styling, was written in JSX and didn’t use Tailwind.
- After I was happy with the instructions, I asked to implement it (in a fresh chat window in order to reduce context).
- After lots of fine-tuning, I got myself this site.
Ps. I always use SvelteKit for any web stuff. I love it. Furthermore: DaisyUI (just trying this out) and Tailwind.
Total time: about a day. Nice.