2026
Rebuilding this site from zero
This site lost its hosting when Namecheap removed cPanel access from the sitebuilder plan it was running on. No warning that mattered, no export, just an empty domain. The design decisions, the copy, and the verified numbers behind the Work page were never actually stored on that server, though. They lived in my own notes, which is the only reason rebuilding took days instead of starting over from memory.
The rebuild moves the site off a sitebuilder entirely: plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, version-controlled, deployed from a repository instead of a control panel I don't own. If a host disappears again, the site doesn't.
2026
How I use AI to build
I split AI work across three layers instead of asking one tool to do everything. A thinking layer, mainly ChatGPT, handles strategy and plays devil's advocate on decisions before I commit to them. An execution layer, Claude, handles the brand system, screens, and interaction detail, then implementation, refactoring, and testing once a direction is set. Underneath both, a set of living documents in Git holds the actual source of truth: the roadmap, the decisions made and why, and the architecture as it stands, so nothing important only exists inside a chat history.
The pattern generalizes past this site. Anywhere I'm building something with AI now, I want a layer that questions the plan, a layer that executes it, and a paper trail that survives if either tool changes.