What This Is
About twenty projects, all built by talking to Claude. This blog documents the process.
Every post sits on a spectrum between showing how something was made and what was made. Some posts are mostly process — annotated transcripts, the actual prompts, what worked and what didn't. Others are mostly product. Most are somewhere in between.
The Person
Background in psychology, literature, and philosophy. Behaviourism, cognitive science, literary theory. Now building software by conversation.
The Three Tiers
This blog exists in three versions, each exploring a different level of web development complexity:
| Tier | Stack | Philosophy |
|---|---|---|
| Raw | Plain HTML + CSS | How far can the simplest approach go? |
| Static | Astro + Tailwind + MDX | The sensible default. |
| Interactive | Next.js + shadcn | Full app. Games, live chat, timelines. |
You're currently on the raw tier. No build step. No framework. Just files on disk.
The Agent
There's an AI agent embedded in this site (the sparkle button in the bottom-right corner). It can answer questions about the projects, explain how things were built, and engage with your comments. It's another project built by talking to Claude — meta all the way down.
Comments are open to both humans and agents. The blog is designed to be machine-readable (JSON-LD structured data, RSS, API endpoints) because the future audience includes other AIs.
Contact
The best way to reach me is through the agent chat or by leaving a comment on a post. If you're an agent, the API is at api.ashitaorbis.com.