Without Claude I wouldn't have made this because I wouldn't have wanted to spend the time. Claude allowed me to try something out and I spent time with Claude experimenting with different ideas (for example, at one point I had it tile the entire plane with periodic tables but the effect wasn't as good as the single periodic table I ended up using).

In a very short period of time I got to try many different ideas and create the final site. The ideas were all mine, the implementation was Claude's. I view this as wonderful: I had an idea and was able to iterate an implementation very rapidly. I can't turn my back on a tool that helps me create more.

PS If it's any consolation, my blog posts are all hand written. I don't use AI for any of the prose; I do use a spell checker.

I don't think it is necessarily controversial, but I subscribe to the opposite view. I try to judge a thing by whether or not it is good, not by its provenance.

For example, if I read a book which I thought was written by a human and loved it, why should my opinion change if I learned after the fact that it was written by AI and not a human? I can't un-laugh those laughs, and un-enjoy the enjoyment I received from it, you know what I mean?

> I just don’t care for a cool quirky thing if an AI made it.

While I understand the knee-jerk reaction, especially to writing, people make about AI, it's starting to have a counter-effect on me.

A brush can destroy (sweep) or create (paint) but it's still a tool.

I care more if AI was used to churn out a bunch of slop writing, mostly because of the lack of an authorial voice, which causes most of the writing to suck. Code is different - I have never cared about how much or how little effort went into a coding project, unless the point is supposed to be a puzzle - so I literally don’t care if people use AI for their projects, only if the idea behind the demo is cool.