It's now December 21st, eight days after I began the website the evening of December 13th, and I'm declaring the website complete. I've worked on it every day and by now it's gone through many iterations, adjustments, and rigorous tests as I'd found myself to be a victim of feature creep as time went on, which is why I'm calling it here. Every time I added a feature, AI would find a way to break old things, causing me to have to reimplement, retest, and refix old features. Finding the balance can be difficult, but this thing has really be a time sink for me.
Probably 99% of the bugs are fixed and 99% of the features that I legitimately need are implemented. The bulk of the website code and development time lies in the admin dashboard behind the scenes; readers will never experience the tools that I've collaborated with AI to make. I've got a Content Editor where I add/edit/delete menu pages and blog posts; an image manager where I can delete old unused images, move files around, make new folders, etc; and a quote editor where I add quotes to be featured in the menu sidebar and randomly cycle through them. Probably about 20% of the work was implementing the core features, 50% was bug testing and fixing bugs, and the remaining 30% was implementing a sexy, sleek UI behind the scenes so I can enjoy the whole process. If a writer doesn't like his tools, does he quit his hobby?
My dog, Finn, has been with me, farting the whole way on the couch. Someone's had too many Milk-Bones.