Building This Site With AI

I don't know how to code. Never learned JavaScript, never touched React, couldn't tell you the difference between TypeScript and CoffeeScript. But I built this entire portfolio site—complete with WebGL shaders, GSAP animations, and CSS scroll-driven effects.

How? By having a conversation with Claude.

The Experiment

I've spent 20+ years in IT infrastructure. I know systems. I know how to think through problems, break them into pieces, and build solutions. But writing frontend code? That was always someone else's job.

Then I started using AI tools—specifically Claude—and realized something: the skills I'd built over two decades of systems work translated directly to working with AI. Knowing how to describe what you want, understanding the constraints, thinking about edge cases—that's most of the work.

What I Learned

Building with AI isn't about typing code faster. It's about thinking clearly about what you want and communicating it well. Every prompt is a spec. Every response is a draft.

The site you're looking at right now—the brutalist design, the noise shader background, the text scramble effects—all of it came from describing what I wanted and iterating until it worked.

The Future

I'm not saying everyone should build this way. But for people like me—systems thinkers who know what they want but don't have the time to learn every programming language—AI changes everything.

You don't need to know how to code. You need to know how to think.