Building My New Website with AI:
A Fun Experiment
I have identified a few use cases where I really like to use AI tools. For some it works better, for others less well.
I am currently working on my new website, where I will publish my articles in the future. Astro serves as the basis. Since I like things to be simple—especially technologically—I don’t use a component library or anything like that. A bit of HTML and (proper) CSS—or in my case, SCSS—are perfectly sufficient. But this task is not as easy for me as writing other code.
Therefore, I started to build my site piece by piece with the support of AI. Starting with the basic structure and individual sections. Now, a pure content page like this is not particularly complicated. But I think the result specific to Astro and the resulting SCSS is very neat.
There were a few cases where the AI went in circles with its suggestions. But overall, it has done me a useful service and definitely saved me time. But it was especially fun to try it out.
The site will be kept simple overall. Everything is absolutely static, etc. So I can’t judge (yet) how well it will work to have complex interfaces designed. But there will definitely be another attempt with a web app.