This website has always been a means of exploring technology that I wasn't already familiar with. When it first came into being I was a college student who knew a lot about software theory, but knew next to nothing about how the internet functioned or how websites worked. Building a website from scratch provided an opportunity to get my hands dirty and learn a thing or two by doing rather than by reading. As a gainfully employed software engineer in 2026 I've been witness to a lot of hype around these tools. In just this month, big tech is cutting jobs (again), Anthropic is now considered a threat to national security by the current government, and almost everyone I've talked to is using these tools in some capacity on a daily basis....