AI Disclosure

I've tried to treat this project as both a showcase of what I've learned and a playground to try new things, and the previous deployments on my webpage show a pretty neat journey of where I started this page versus where it is now. There's still a ways to go before I'm really satisfied, but along the way I've used AI pretty generously. That being said, it's important to clarify on where I actually used AI as a substitute for coding, and where I used it solely as a tutor.

AI was used generously in teaching me HTML and CSS attributes, but was used sparingly for providing code outright. My workflow consisted of searching online for inspiration, where I sourced several design ideas from websites like Few.io. Specifically, I saw their navigation bar and thought it was way too cool not to try on my own. Claude did not write the code, but did tell me what attributes I could use to make it happen (like backdrop-filter, which I had no idea existed prior but created that insanely cool glassy effect when scrolling over content.)

The navigation bar used to get to this page was also originally built with AI. I tried to bumble my way through building it, and I did actually go back and learn just enough JavaScript to rewrite the JS by myself. That part was ironically more simple than the CSS, which I tried to do myself but ultimately wound up using a substantial amount of AI help with. It's not that I don't understand what's going on when it opens, but there are six elements in that navbar and trying to remember every one of their attributes has been incredibly tedious.

Other than that, AI was only used to create some custom assets, like the background of this website (Custom SVG backdrop that I went into the code on and changed some colors). Everything else has been done with my own brain and typed with my own hands. Except for the JSON-LD. Definitely not the JSON-LD.