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I designed and built this site in May 2026.

How it was built

The initial scaffold was produced by Claude Code (Anthropic) from a detailed specification document, using the editorial-brutalist aesthetic of a Cargo template as design reference. The codebase is Next.js 15 App Router with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, deployed on Vercel.

The build process itself reflects the AI-native working style that production AI engineering increasingly requires. Specifications, scaffolding, component design, and case study drafting were all conducted in collaboration with Claude. Where the model produced output that conflicted with the design intent, the resolution lived in iteration, not in rebuilding from scratch. The result is a site that I can defend line by line while having been built faster than I could have built it alone.

Stack

Framework. Next.js 15 with App Router and React Server Components.

Language. TypeScript in strict mode.

Styling. Tailwind CSS v4 with CSS variable design tokens.

Typography. Switzer, self-hosted via next/font/local from woff2 files downloaded from Fontshare, preloaded and served from the same origin.

Animations. Framer Motion for orchestrated transitions, vanilla CSS for hover and flip primitives.

Content. Case studies and essays render from typed content modules in the repository. MDX is configured for future long-form pieces.

Deployment. Vercel, with Analytics and Speed Insights enabled. A custom domain is pending.

Source control. GitHub.

Tools used in the build

Claude Code (Anthropic), the agentic CLI, handled scaffolding, component creation, page routing, and most of the iteration, operating directly on the filesystem and using the GitHub CLI for repository operations. Claude Opus 4.7 drove the build, including the design dialogue and the longer-form prose.

The case study drafts were written in dialogue with Claude, in my voice. The essays in the writing section were drafted similarly, with claim and structure produced first and prose written in close iteration.

Why this matters

Building production software with AI tools daily, for writing and debugging code, exploring designs, analyzing data, and automating repetitive work, is now a core engineering competence. This site is one piece of evidence that I work that way. The OPick agentic pipeline is another. Spandrel, the deal-sourcing system I built for a US private-capital firm, is a third.