I Redesigned My Site in an Afternoon. The AI Did the Easy Part.

Today I tore my site down to the studs and rebuilt it in three colours: black, an ember red, and a gold the colour of the inside of a forge. An AI did the actual work — every pixel, every deploy, live, in minutes.

Which makes it sound like the AI was the hero. It wasn’t.

The first thing it handed me was beautiful and wrong. Dark background, a soft glow, a gradient — the exact look every AI gives you when you ask for “cool.” I looked at it and felt the specific dread of something that’s technically fine and secretly dead. So I said it out loud: this looks like a robot made it.

That’s the part the machine can’t do. It will generate a thousand options before my coffee gets cold. It cannot tell which one is mine. It doesn’t know that anime colour is flat, not glowing. It doesn’t know the red should be the fire and the words should be gold. It will build you the most average thing in the world, beautifully, all day.

So that was the whole job today: taste. Knowing it was wrong. Saying “no — make it pop” until it did.

The tools are getting godlike. The bottleneck is quietly becoming the one thing they can’t hand you: a point of view.

I’m building this in the open — taste, misses, and all. lovelearnlift.com.