A wish upon an 8-bit shooting star

2026-01-20

I mainly use AI to vibe code most of this site.
However, I want to truly understand my own website and how to make it my own.

I personally believe that AI can do some good by making mundane and repetitive tasks easy, but it can undermine an important part of the human experience. Of learning and enjoying to learn.

I remember when I first started drawing. It was first all an attempt to impress those more popular than me by making fan art for them. But as I started drawing for myself I realized, learning small details, stumbling upon new techniques and being able to draw whatever was on my mind was a lot of fun!

AI is just another hurdle into my creativity. Bound by the promts and the collective amalgamation of the human conciousness from the internet.

Its... uninspired.

It sure makes things easy though. I got this site up in under a week with no previous coding experience. Out of curiosity I peaked at the code of this AI machine and thought. "I can do that, and so much better," I just need to take more time with it.

Others may see this as a waste of time. That I can focus on my art or while having a good looking website too, but thats not the point. I want everything I make to look like it's gotten a bit of soul into it.

Everytime I open this website I see no soul. Boring. But this blank and space with a wall of text feels so much more inspired.

Call it cope, but I think I can learn html, css and even a bit of JS without heavy relyance on AI.