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Building with AI: A Website Redesign Experiment
An honest look at using AI to redesign a website from scratch. Spoiler: it's not as easy as YouTube makes it look, but the journey is worth sharing.
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part 01 2025-06-30 · 4 min
How I Procrastinated my way into my website redesign
Or: How strategic procrastination became the most valuable part of my entire redesign process I was bored with macapinlac.com’s design. Not just mildly dissatisfied — properly bored. You know that feeling when you look a…
2025-08-01 · 4 min
AI and the Art of Overcomplicating Simple Things
While the industry debates whether AI will replace designers (most likely not) and developers embrace “vibe coding,” I was learning a different lesson: the problem isn’t whether AI can do the work—it’s figuring out which…
2026-05-30 · 4 min
The redesign series I never finished (and the one I'm doing instead)
If you’re keeping score, you would’ve noticed that we never finished the Building a Website with AI: A Website Redesign Experiment series. It contained four posts that I had high hopes for but never saw the light of day…
part 04 // coming soon
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Setting the Stage: Cursor Rules and AI Guardrails
Why setting up proper AI guardrails before implementation makes all the difference — and how to do it right.
part 05 // coming soon
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ASCII Art and Architecture: Designing Without Wireframes
How to design a website using ASCII art and AI, because sometimes the best wireframes are the ones you don't make.
part 06 // coming soon
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Feature by Feature: The Implementation Dance
The actual building process: what works, what doesn't, and how to dance with AI through feature implementation.
part 07 // coming soon
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Lessons Learned: What Works (And What Doesn't)
Final reflections on the AI-assisted redesign process and practical takeaways for your own projects.