Idea
The project was simple to say and annoying to execute: make a chaotic personal-site builder where the AI only gets a narrow conversational surface and a tiny message budget.
Status
We sketched the constraints, mocked a few horrible page styles, and confirmed that removing file access changes the kind of mistakes an agent makes.
Problems Faced
- Stateless help gets repetitive fast.
- The agent became unusually confident about content it could not inspect.
Techniques That Helped
- Force every step through a tiny schema.
- Treat each prompt like an expensive API call instead of casual chat.
Lessons Learned
Artificial scarcity is a useful design tool. Limiting access makes workflow flaws obvious.