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I made this website almost entirely using Claude

Yea.. lots of people are doing this and so I figured I'd give it a shot. For some background, I was a mid-level SWE before getting laid off in January 2026. I took some time to enjoy life without the pressures of work, or the routine. It was just me, my MBA program, and whole lot of time.

Fast forward to now, early March. I had my fun but I felt like it was time to sharpen some skills. I used AI tools at work, including sonnet, but I used copilot and it was often on already existing projects. I wanted to see just how much I could build using AI, and this website is the result. In a single workday worth of hours, I was able to setup this blog website with RBAC, a connection to a live postgresDB hosted on neon, this site hosted on vercel, all hooked up to my github so when a PR goes into main, it redeploys the site. It's not as robust as a system you'd see in a company, but man, all this in one day is more than I would've imagined just a few years ago. If you're wondering, I have a tool in this website for admins only that lets my write out these blog posts. I type markdown in a box, and it renders next to it so I can see what the post will look like.

I can only imagine iterating on this site to be a breeze. Hookup up email subscriptions, migrating the db to handle storing the projects tab as data in postgres, adding more functionality, in general will only take minutes or hours, especially now that all the env var shenanigans is setup. If I want to do everything with TDD, I can make it happen in no time at all. What a fun time to be engineering.

Not much else to talk about for this post, just that building this site was incredibly simple and I'm having a lot of fun seeing just how fast Claude can work. Software people don't need to worry about losing their jobs, I actually foresee a huge amount of software coming out very quickly. I'm excited to see what people build.