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I burned through thousands of AI tokens. Then a friend did it for free
(yep, kinda clickbait, just for the funsies 😊) At the beginning of the year, I relaunched my portfolio site using Codex and Gemini CLI as my main development tools. It wasn't entirely vibe-coded: I spent several days updating content and researching best practices, plus a good pile of tokens on brainstorming sessions. For personal projects, I'm trying to keep a philosophy of "done is better than perfect". So even knowing the layout wasn't what I wanted, I uploaded the site and let it sit for a
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