I started at 8pm on April 21st. By 1am, cedriklim.com was on the internet.
The whole thing was built with Claude Code. I didn’t write the CSS. I didn’t wire up the Astro routing. I didn’t reach for Tailwind docs. I described what I wanted and reviewed what came back.
That last part is the thing people keep missing about working with AI. “It built itself” is not quite right. I had to know what I wanted.
My taste is pretty specific. I like Apple’s design standard. Generous whitespace. Serif for weight. Monochrome unless color earns its place. Motion that serves a purpose, never shows off. So every prompt started with that. Not “make it nice.” “Design to Apple standard. Restrained, editorial, one strong idea per page.” Given the same tool, someone with no opinion would have gotten a different site.
The only indulgence was the flappy bird on the hero. A pixel sprite flying behind my name, tap to flap, it perches when it lands. Nothing about it is Apple restrained. I wanted it there anyway. The best design rules are the ones you know when to break.
Five hours isn’t the story. The story is: if you know what you want, the tools are ready for you.