Over the weekend I got inspired to try Stitch, an AI-powered vibe-design tool that helps people like me who struggle to land a solid color scheme from scratch. I wanted the redesign to feel like computers: CRT glow, system diagnostics, and a clean machine-room aesthetic. I used that as a starting point and pushed it toward something unmistakably technical, because if you are reading this, that is exactly what you are going to get from me: a technical person.
So what is new with the personal website?
The personal website has refreshed its design once more, with the help from Stitch.
A dedicated light and dark mode toggle
The color theme now actually means something, rather than being thrown together. Previously I was modelling it after an anime that had triangles as a heavy motif in its intro. At the same time, I got a bit obsessed with black and red. Dark mode looked great; light mode looked like a paint explosion due to the anime. They never felt like two sides of the same coin.
That’s the problem Stitch solved for me. Instead of hastily throwing colors together, it gave me something I could actually work with: a cohesive foundation that I could then tweak and refine. Now they are deliberate counterparts to each other. Every dark and light color is a thoughtful pair, not an afterthought. There is also a dedicated toggle with three states: light, dark, and system - which just follows whatever your OS is set to.
A refreshed theme
Home page before and after
Before and after comparisons of the 2026 redesign
The theme is an evolution of what I had before, pushed further toward the direction I always wanted: futuristic, technical, unmistakably computer-brained. This is just the start: the site will keep evolving. This design is an evolution from what I had before, not a total redesign.
Getting there was not painless. Stitch kept refusing to output a proper 1:1 light and dark mode, which drove me up the wall. But what it did give me was a solid foundation: a “Copy to Clipboard” export that generates an HTML page with Tailwind 4 baked in, which I used as a starting point. I did not use any of the art Stitch generated, and I had to discard a lot of it because it felt tacky and obviously AI-made. In the end, only about 25% of what Stitch produced made it into production.
I do not actually use Tailwind, though. I use unocss. Tailwind is opinionated by design: CSS Variables everywhere, layers everywhere, and good luck trying to opt out of any of it. That level of opinion is limiting when you need precise control.
With unocss I can target exactly what I need. That matters to me because I work across a lot of older platforms that people use every day without realizing they are web-based. I am always conscious of every byte of HTML, JS, and CSS that ships.
My take on the New World of Coding
There are two letters that people groan about when talking about Stitch: A and I. I get it. Every product launch has “AI-powered” stamped on it, and the hype is exhausting. I am not here to dismiss those frustrations: I share them.
But here is what I can tell you from experience: what used to take me months now took days. Stitch helped me get my vision across without needing to grind through every design decision from scratch. That is real, and I would be doing myself a disservice to ignore it.
That said, I have serious reservations about how people use AI. I am not comfortable with work handed entirely to AI and shipped without review, or with people claiming AI-generated output as their own creative work. If that has ever happened somewhere I worked, I was not the one who signed off on it — and I would have pushed back hard. That is not what happened here. Yes, this design and implementation were AI-assisted — no doubt about it. But every output was reviewed by me. I pushed back constantly and steered the whole way. I am in control of what gets published.
My frustration is not with the tool itself: it is with the expectation that AI should replace creativity entirely. I have yet to encounter a piece of AI-generated art that stands on its own as something genuinely meaningful. Creativity is still human.
To me, AI is the next layer of computing infrastructure: still rough around the edges, but a natural extension of the tools we have always built to think and work faster. It handles the mechanical parts so I can spend more energy on the parts that actually need a human.
AI is not here to replace people. Whether you use it or not is your call — but if you do, stay in the loop and make it yours. This post, this design, this site: AI helped, but the creativity behind all of it is still mine. The vision, the direction, the final say — that was always me. That is the part you cannot hand off.