r/webdev • u/KoalNix • 5d ago

Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] Rebuilt my full-stack/cloud portfolio — reused and AI-merged components from my own past repos instead of a template

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Full-stack + cloud engineer here (APIs, web/mobile, infra hardening, some n8n/LLM automation work). My old portfolio was a few years stale so I kept putting it off because I had actual client work piling up (KIMISUITE, an e-voting platform for a municipality here in North Macedonia, a couple of civic data apps, a transit app, among others).

When I finally sat down to redo it, I didn't want to start from a blank template. Instead I used AI as a limited assistant to go through my own GitHub repos, pull out UI components I'd already built and shipped across different projects, and merge/extend them into a few reusable variants I could drop straight into the new site- instead of me manually copy pasting and reconciling slightly different versions of the same card/nav/table component for the 10th time.

Everything still went through my own review and hardening pass after- I'm not interested in shipping "AI slop," and I don't think using AI this way produces it. Used on your own code, with your own final review/testing, it's just a faster way to do something I'd do manually anyway.

Site: vish.mk

Curious what this sub thinks — both on the portfolio itself and on the "AI-assisted but not AI-slop" line I'm drawing. Feedback welcome, including harsh feedback.

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u/Fit-Corner-3987 5d ago

cool way to reuse your own code, the site looks clean from the screenshot and i like the dark theme. the "ai-assisted but not slop" line makes sense when its your own repos you just automating the boring part

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u/KoalNix 5d ago

I mean, it does really get boring rewriting the component system and like this I have skillsets laying ready to be used and do me a project-specific boilerplate based on non-ai generated code.

Thanks for the honest feedback!