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Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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oceanhaiyang wrote: post #65

> I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. This is so absurdly cringe and absolutely not coding. It’s like saying I spent absolutely trying to get ChatGPT to write my college essay for me. At the end of the writing period, I wrote noth…

If OP were a front end engineer or something I might agree, but this is a graphic design portfolio. I think it's completely reasonable to rely on outside assistance for the scripting and interactive stuff.

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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busymom0 wrote: post #61

Would be cool if the contact you page let me send you an email from your site itself instead of trying to launch my default mail app. I typed out an email and filled in my email but it tried to launch mail app when I tried to send it.

yeah I would also love to get that working - at one point that was the plan but things changed. It's something i'll look into updated, thanks for the suggestion.

btw, if you let your mail app open - whatever you typed into my contact me app will be pre-filled in a new message ready to send

Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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daemonologist wrote: post #71
oceanhaiyang wrote: post #65

> I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. This is so absurdly cringe and absolutely not coding. It’s like saying I spent absolutely trying to get ChatGPT to write my college essay for me. At the end of the writing period, I wrote noth…

If OP were a front end engineer or something I might agree, but this is a graphic design portfolio. I think it's completely reasonable to rely on outside assistance for the scripting and interactive stuff.

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Re: Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio

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Post by mitchivin »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #73

Quite honestly, super cool! Telling that you probably managed to wield AI tools quite well if you managed to get this far with it. Only pet peeve I have is with the obvious AI generated art (including the wallpaper?) — still can't get onboard with them.

It was definitely a long fought battle haha

Yeah for sure, I completely get it - I can genuinely understand the large majority of reasons people have for holding that opinion and I don't even necessarily disagree with many of them. I will admit, I do find it wildly entertaining and having the ability to turn an idea into something tangible almost instantly allows me to produce more high quality work.

Aside from personal opinions, I just think that it's pretty clear where the world's going and since money doesn't care about feelings - companies are going to use it. so I feel like it probably helps, or at least will start to help more and more as time goes on having it clear that I can and do use these AI tools they keep hearing about.

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