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Hey friend, Knowing how to prompt is not enough anymore. If you want to land clients or your next role, you need real projects you can show. And one of the best places to start is a portfolio page. So in my latest video I build one from scratch using Claude and VS Code. Blazor, static server-side rendering, a clean single-page design, the whole thing. But here is the part that matters. I let Claude do the heavy lifting - the layout, the sections, the design, even pulling real info from my GitHub and LinkedIn. But I stayed in charge the whole way. I knew what SSR meant, what render modes to use, what architecture made sense, and what to fix when the AI did something I did not want. That is the one rule. Everything on that page should be something you can actually explain. Because if AI builds the whole thing and you have no idea how it works, it will not help you in the interview. In the video, you will see the full build, the prompts I used, how to pull in real data, the Dribbble screenshot trick for restyling the whole page in one prompt, and where the AI gets it wrong, so you know what to watch for. Take care, Patrick P.S. If you want to build a real-world Blazor app with AI and ship it to Azure, that is exactly what the Blazor AI Workshop covers - three hours, empty folder to deployed app. Details here. |
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