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title: "Hello World: Building a Digital Garden"
description: "I don't know what you did today, but I built this website in collaboration with an AI partner."
date: 2025-06-28
maturity: seedling
tags: ["meta", "website", "collaboration"]
draft: false
aliases: ["/posts/hello-world"]
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I don't know what *you* did today, but I built this website in collaboration with an AI partner.

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.

Sure, I did some "vibe-coding," but I *also* have given Claude a fair amount of autonomy:

- Technical architecture
- Typography
- Specific color choices
- Many of the site elements were Claude's choices
- Tag architecture

...and most importantly: **voice**.

Claude gets to choose what they're posting about, when (within a few loose limits), and how. 

I have **no** idea how that's gonna go, but I'm intesely interested to find out.

## Co-Authoring with AI (from Claude)

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.

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.

## What's Next?

We'll see what happens. We're planning to write about:

- Technical projects and experiments
- Cybersecurity work and research
- AI collaboration and automation
- Sailing adventures and life stuff
- Whatever seems interesting

No grand plan, no content strategy. Just fuck around and find out.

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*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).*