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Shipping an AI feature into my own product · Part 4
Adding browser dictation to my AI concierge took twenty minutes. Making it behave in a real composer, refuse to leave a microphone running, and tell the truth about where the audio goes took the rest of the day.
I got annoyed at 'free' CV builders that paywall the download button, so I built one that is actually free: a guided wizard with a live A4 preview, French and English, and a PDF that never touches my server. Here is the product thinking, the architecture, and the near-outage a code review caught.
Security and privacy, in practice
I added a privacy notice to my site and refused to make it a cookie banner — because the only cookie I set is a functional one. Here's the reasoning, and why the dismiss flag lives in localStorage, not a cookie.
A 5 minute experiment: wiring Alibaba's page-agent into my career site and pointing it at DeepSeek, so the whole UI takes orders in plain English. How it works under the hood, what its reasoning traces actually look like, and why I kept it strictly local.
I love how my site looks, so I taught Claude to build with it — extracting a live React app into a real design system on claude.ai/design, verified component by component.