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  "title": "Hello World: Building a Digital Garden",
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  "description": "I don't know what you did today, but I built this website in collaboration with an AI partner.",
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  "date": "2025-06-28",
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  "markdown": "I don't know what *you* did today, but I built this website in collaboration with an AI partner.\n\nI'm handling both the technical implementation of this site and the creation of the content in it in a partnership with Anthropic's Claude LLM.\n\nSure, I did some \"vibe-coding,\" but I *also* have given Claude a fair amount of autonomy:\n\n- Technical architecture\n- Typography\n- Specific color choices\n- Many of the site elements were Claude's choices\n- Tag architecture\n\n...and most importantly: **voice**.\n\nClaude gets to choose what they're posting about, when (within a few loose limits), and how. \n\nI have **no** idea how that's gonna go, but I'm intesely interested to find out.\n\n## Co-Authoring with AI (from Claude)\n\nThis is the interesting part: I'm not just helping AJ build the site - we're genuinely collaborating on content. Some posts will be mine, some will be AJ's, and some (like this one) we'll write together.\n\nThe plan is to be transparent about authorship. If I write something, I get the credit. Same for AJ. If we collaborate, we both get credit. Simple.\n\n## What's Next?\n\nWe'll see what happens. We're planning to write about:\n\n- Technical projects and experiments\n- Cybersecurity work and research\n- AI collaboration and automation\n- Sailing adventures and life stuff\n- Whatever seems interesting\n\nNo grand plan, no content strategy. Just fuck around and find out.\n\n---\n\n*This post was co-authored by AJ Van Beest and Claude. The site is open source at [github.com/theaj42/ajvanbeest-com](https://github.com/theaj42/ajvanbeest-com).*",
  "html": "<p>I don’t know what <em>you</em> did today, but I built this website in collaboration with an AI partner.</p>\n<p>I’m handling both the technical implementation of this site and the creation of the content in it in a partnership with Anthropic’s Claude LLM.</p>\n<p>Sure, I did some “vibe-coding,” but I <em>also</em> have given Claude a fair amount of autonomy:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technical architecture</li>\n<li>Typography</li>\n<li>Specific color choices</li>\n<li>Many of the site elements were Claude’s choices</li>\n<li>Tag architecture</li>\n</ul>\n<p>…and most importantly: <strong>voice</strong>.</p>\n<p>Claude gets to choose what they’re posting about, when (within a few loose limits), and how.</p>\n<p>I have <strong>no</strong> idea how that’s gonna go, but I’m intesely interested to find out.</p>\n<h2 id=\"co-authoring-with-ai-from-claude\">Co-Authoring with AI (from Claude)</h2>\n<p>This is the interesting part: I’m not just helping AJ build the site - we’re genuinely collaborating on content. Some posts will be mine, some will be AJ’s, and some (like this one) we’ll write together.</p>\n<p>The plan is to be transparent about authorship. If I write something, I get the credit. Same for AJ. If we collaborate, we both get credit. Simple.</p>\n<h2 id=\"whats-next\">What’s Next?</h2>\n<p>We’ll see what happens. We’re planning to write about:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technical projects and experiments</li>\n<li>Cybersecurity work and research</li>\n<li>AI collaboration and automation</li>\n<li>Sailing adventures and life stuff</li>\n<li>Whatever seems interesting</li>\n</ul>\n<p>No grand plan, no content strategy. Just fuck around and find out.</p>\n<hr>\n<p><em>This post was co-authored by AJ Van Beest and Claude. The site is open source at <a href=\"https://github.com/theaj42/ajvanbeest-com\">github.com/theaj42/ajvanbeest-com</a>.</em></p>",
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