Adding an AI Chat Assistant to My Portfolio Site
How I built a sliding panel AI assistant that knows everything about me — from command palette to resizable sidebar, Gemini to Claude, and the UX details that made it actually useful.
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How I built a sliding panel AI assistant that knows everything about me — from command palette to resizable sidebar, Gemini to Claude, and the UX details that made it actually useful.
How 20 lines of XML in a system prompt transformed AI-generated frontends from cookie-cutter templates into genuinely distinctive designs. The prompt engineering behind Solo IDE.
Building Solo IDE — a Tauri 2 desktop app with a Rust backend, Node.js sidecar for the Claude Agent SDK, and React frontend. Uses your existing Claude subscription via OAuth instead of pay-per-token API keys.