What they did
Puhakka had not built a portfolio since 2006. On 1 October 2026 he gave Claude a single-line brief plus a PDF export of a Figma portfolio holding about ten years of curated cases, and asked for a web version. He judged and Claude built: Claude wrote the code, matched fresh originals against old image crops, found prices in screenshots that needed blurring, and kept a log of settled decisions. Instead of static slides, some cases became working samples, such as a live component library with switchable themes and a 3D control the reader can turn. One address shows each reader only the work picked for them. Earlier, on a client project, he had Claude Code produce a Storybook of 20 components from his design tokens.
How it went
After two weeks the site was live from a GitHub repo, responsive, lazy-loading and behind a password. Claude made real mistakes: it tested in one browser while Safari broke the project overview, cut too much after misreading a request, and stated a guess as fact. Puhakka caught several before Claude did, and none reached the live site. He says rewriting the copy Claude drafted in minutes took him hours or days. He gives no cost figures.
Worth knowing
The curated PDF did the work of a long prompt, so early requests could stay short. They wrote down rules for what could be retouched, what stayed confidential and what counted as a claim. The post names Claude but not the harness used for the portfolio itself; Claude Code is named only for the earlier Storybook build.