Building this blog with an AI pair

Sample post. Replace it with your own writing.

Most of the code behind this site was written by an AI assistant. The decisions were not. This is how the work was split.

Decide before building

Before any code existed, the architecture was written down with its trade-offs: a static site, Markdown files in git, no database. The design came next, on a canvas, and was approved before the first component.

What I kept

• Choosing between approaches when more than one was reasonable.
• Reading each summary of what changed and why.
• Deciding what is private. Some posts here are only for me.

How the work was checked

Tests I can run myself matter more than a claim that something works:

npm run test
npm run build
npm run verify:public

The last command reads the finished public site and fails if anything from a private post is in it.