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Brett Parson

Slight Redesign

I've actually been sitting on this one for a bit. I spent some time with codex figuring out how to do some wireframing and mocking of the website itself, which is something I've been meaning to do and haven't had the tools or time to really bother. It was fine for a process.

At work I typically do quick wireframes with Claude Design, and it integrates very nicely with the Claude Code CLI, so Codex feels just a little bit more primitive than I'm used to from Anthropic's ecosystem, but since I pay for it I may as well use it. Cliché, but I've found Codex for the purpose of organizing my own documents and processes very, very useful. And of course, Astra being a very capable vision model means I can do 3D modeling and other fascinating stuff.

I'm still building with Deepseek periodically, I have more than $10 left from my original $20 I passed in, which is more than I can say for everything else. But where Deepseek lacks is in vision and scaffolding on a harness level, which just is what it is. The Flash model has been very good for what it is in terms of cost, so appropriately mixing these models together to cost-effectively tackle projects seems like the most useful DIY path forward.

In terms of the site itself, Most of the layout changes are on my side. I updated a bunch of form layouts, cleaned up my process workflow, and decided to go a bit warmer in terms of color and design. However, I now have a true header, the footer is a bit less goofy, and navigation isn't like pulling teeth.

I have more plans for this stuff, obviously. However, this MVP project is a bit of an art project more so than it is an actual functional website. The art side of it is the hobby, the hosted projects, and the do-it-live LLM harnessing and agentic building that is so much fun to work in.

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