How I Redesigned My Portfolio with Google Gemini (and Where the AI Actually Let Me Down)

This is a submission for the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge What I Built with Google Gemini A few months ago I entered DEV's New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge and decided to rebuild my portfolio from scratch. The brief: use Google AI's tools, deploy to Cloud Run, make it yours. The result is "Brutalist/Industrial" ( original submission post ). The aesthetic intentionally rejects the clean, white-space-heavy look that most developer portfolios default to. Exposed grids, heavy typography with the SCHABO typeface, cursor-reactive background cells, a mathematically generated DNA helix that assembles and deconstructs as you scroll. The whole thing runs on Astro with React islands, GSAP for animations, and OGL (a lightweight WebGL library) for a metaballs footer effect. The most interesting part, at least for this challenge, was the Gemini integration I shipped as actual product features rather than just development tooling: Pitch Generator: paste any job description into it