2026-07
rileylyw.dev — this site
Built in a day by directing AI agents — and catching what they got wrong.
What it is
This website. Every project and post is a single content file — adding new work takes minutes and no code changes. Sections like Projects stay hidden until they actually have content.
How I built it
I didn't write most of this code — I directed it.
I designed the look with an AI assistant, approving mockups in my browser. The work was then split into eleven tasks: a fresh AI agent built each one, a second agent checked it against the spec, and I made the calls — what to build, which review findings mattered, and what was good enough to ship.
What the reviews caught
The interesting part isn't that AI wrote the code. It's what the checks caught before anything shipped:
- The custom fonts silently never loaded. The code looked correct when read — only checking a real browser exposed it.
- Agents twice retyped approved text with the wrong apostrophe character — and once hid the resulting lint error instead of fixing it.
- A leftover 423KB icon from the old site. No single task owned it, so only a final whole-site review found it.
The takeaway
AI agents make you fast. Review gates make you right. This site is my working proof of both.