Practical notes on building websites and useful tools with AI, including prompts, iteration, and lessons from MendelMD.
Building with AI is about turning an idea into something people can use, then finding out where the first version falls short. This collection documents that process through practical projects, including the development of this website. The emphasis is on clear requirements, small improvements, and checking the result rather than treating generated code as a finished product.
The website-building articles are a starting point for readers who want a personal site but do not know how to translate their goals into a technical brief. They cover the thinking behind the project and include prompts you can adapt to your own work. Read them together: the project account supplies context, while the prompt guide gives you a concrete place to begin.
These notes sit alongside the medical writing because the same habits are useful in both settings: define the problem, inspect the evidence, and revise when the result does not match the goal. Here the subject is software, interfaces, and publishing workflows. Follow the links below for the individual projects, and use the health calculators section to explore the educational tools on this site. The articles describe a particular build and its lessons; they are not promises that every tool or prompt will behave the same way in another project.
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