This entire website — the pages you're clicking through, the illustrations, the CMS this post was published from, even the favicon in your browser tab — was built through a conversation with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent. I didn't write the code. I described what I wanted, reviewed what came back, and steered. Here's how it went.
Start with a vibe, not a spec
My first message was one line: "keep a clean white look, take inspiration from Apple and how Claude designs." No wireframes, no tickets. Claude scaffolded a Next.js and Tailwind project, pulled my details from my resume PDF, and had a working site — hero, experience, resume download, analytics hooks — running in a live browser preview within minutes.
Borrow taste, then make it yours
I shared a portfolio site I liked and said "go creative." Claude drew an entire illustration language from scratch — hand-written SVGs of payment cards, tap-to-pay phones, currency coins, and funnels, each with flat color blocks offset behind ink outlines. That language now runs through everything: the hero, the section tiles, the case-study artwork, the S-coin favicon in the browser tab, and even my LinkedIn banner.
