Felix Rieseberg redesigned his homepage with Claude, without touching code

Made by Mechanical Means

Felix Rieseberg, a former Slack engineer now on the Claude team, rebuilt his personal site using Claude Opus 5.5. He ran roughly 60 parallel threads—Claude handled Blender modeling, FFmpeg music synthesis, and Playwright screenshot checks entirely in the cloud. He never ran code locally. The result is an interactive 90s German-journalist-room page with a VHS portfolio gallery and a nihilistic penguin. He says the workflow now feels more like discussing goals than implementation details.

Why it matters: Felix Rieseberg is on the Claude team, and this first-person experiment delivers concrete thread counts, toolchain details, and a finished artifact — all three HKR axes hit. Not scored higher because it's a personal project retrospective, not a product launch or research relea...