Proud Uncle Alert – Sabrina Feld – Cyber Tech

My brother Daniel despatched an e mail to the household final Wednesday with the topic line “Proud Dad alert!” His daughter Sabrina had simply constructed and launched a portfolio web site from scratch. She didn’t use Squarespace or Wix. She constructed a customized Subsequent.js website with scroll-triggered animations, a frosted glass navigation header, a customized picture carousel with lightbox, and 6 web page templates – all self-hosted on Netlify.

Sabrina is a senior at Scripps School pursuing twin levels in Science, Know-how & Society and Superb Arts. She’s a product designer and fantastic artist – not a software program developer. She constructed your complete factor utilizing Claude Code.

She wrote a weblog publish concerning the course of, describing what it’s wish to direct an AI while you don’t know CSS. She “needed to get exact in different methods” – utilizing design vocabulary and visible references as a substitute of code snippets. When bugs appeared, she described signs and shared screenshots reasonably than studying stack traces.

A line that caught with me: “Obscure prompts produced generic designs. Clear inventive conviction produced one thing that felt like mine.”

This matches what I see constructing with Claude Code day by day. The standard of the output tracks instantly with the specificity of the enter. “Make this look higher” offers you one thing generic. “I would like heat tones, editorial structure, and a buttercup accent coloration for hover states” offers you one thing that appears like an actual design choice was made. Sabrina’s model of this was arriving at every session with sturdy opinions about what she needed – gathered design references, ready content material, and a transparent imaginative and prescient for the aesthetic.

She did over twenty suggestions periods throughout an eleven-day construct, with about 4 to 6 hours of lively work. The AI didn’t remove iteration. It made every spherical sooner.

Go take a look at the positioning. Her artwork part showcases monotype, pastel, watercolor, and cyanotype work. The tasks part covers her product administration work at StackHawk, together with a product launch she led end-to-end and analysis for an AI-driven safety testing device. The design is clear and typography-focused, with a darkish footer and people buttercup accent colours she specified.

After I noticed the positioning, I did what any uncle who’s a nerd would do – I ran a safety assessment. The outcomes had been strong. TLS configuration is right, no delicate recordsdata uncovered, no supply maps in manufacturing, and HTTP redirects to HTTPS accurately. I despatched Sabrina a listing of safety headers so as to add and a few DNS data price configuring – about ten minutes of labor that addresses the findings.

Sabrina is searching for roles in product design and product administration after commencement this spring. Her portfolio is at sabrinafeld.com.