Posted on: 2026-02-21
So if you know this website - you might have noticed a slight change on how it looks.
To the left is the old look, to the right the new one.
The old look was fine but ... let's just say, a bit dated. Yeah, I'll admit - I might be good at developing stuff, I'm not good at creating a visually appealing design. For more important things I would have contacted a professional web agency like letsgooo.online, but this is just a personal project. I didn't want to spend any money on it.
So I just opened VSCode with the "cline" Extension and asked it to do the following:
Can you check the design of this website? Do you have any suggestions for improvements to make it look more modern?
First I tried this with a local instance of a quantized qwen3-coder in ollama. The 19GB doesn't quite fit into my 16GB VRAM so a part of it has to be handled by the CPU. This wouldn't be a problem as such, if it weren't for the large context size required by cline to function correctly.
I had it set to around 40000. If you carefully check the animation above you will notice it drops some errors into the HTML. It also added a copyright message which, due to the license of this website, I really didn't want to have. Running the task took about 15 minutes, the result was quite good, but not perfect:
But in addition to all the issues above - most importantly - the cats are missing! No back and forth with the model would allow me to get them back. And it took way to long. So I put that aside for now.
Then I wanted to figure out what a smaller context did, so I reduced it to 8192 and tried the same thing again. This time it just got confused:
Yeah, that's not going anywhere.
So I left my local LLM and had another go with ChatGPT. I asked it the same question:
That took only about a minute and the result is pretty much what you see here. I manually had to move the cats around a bit and it got one thing wrong about dark mode so I had to fiddle with the CSS. That's fine though, it can't "look" at the final result after all.