Rebuilding my website with AI as a collaborator

For a long time, my website wasn’t really mine. Since years, my website has been running on WordPress with Semplice on top when it arrived on the market. It wasn’t perfect, but it got me started—online, visible, and constantly iterating on my portfolio and personal brand.

But the more I grew into design systems, into thinking about structure, scalability, and intent, the more that setup started to feel off. I was designing systems for a living—yet my own website was held together by themes, plugins, and decisions I didn’t fully control. At some point, that gap became too obvious to ignore.

So I decided to rebuild it from scratch.

I moved everything to a setup built around GitHub and Vercel, and for the first time, it actually feels like I own the thing. Not just visually—but structurally.

Yet in my professional environment, I’m used to working within design systems, staging environments, and structured coding workflows—Being able to do it for my own is a game changer when there’s no hidden layer.

It’s quieter, cleaner and more honest. I now own my design system end to end, with the flexibility to create, extend, and restructure content seamlessly through my headless CMS.

What surprised me the most though wasn’t just the tech shift—it was how I built it. This time, I didn’t do it alone. I started working in a more agentic way, using ChatGPT almost like a collaborator. Not to replace the work, but to accelerate the parts that usually slow you down. I decided against using Claude—ChatGPT and Codex simply align more naturally with the way I already work.

Instead of staring at a blank file, I could shape components through prompts. Instead of getting stuck in setup, I could move straight into refinement. Instead of separating design and code, I could blur the line between the two.

It changed the rhythm completely. Less friction. More flow. Fewer deviations. More time spent on decisions that actually matter.

I think that’s what this rebuild is really about. Not just moving away from WordPress. Not just “going custom.” It’s about alignment. The way I work, the way I think about systems, the way I design for others—it’s now reflected in my own space.

• Everything is intentional.
• Everything can evolve.
• Nothing is locked.

It’s still early. There’s a lot I want to refine, push further, experiment with but for the first time in a while, the website doesn’t feel like something I maintain. It feels like something I build on.