Current AI playground: a few projects I’m building

Five projects I’m building with AI tools right now, and which tool I reach for.

Projects

• lucaslongo.com — rebuilding my site/blog into a lighter AI-assisted setup, and using it as a playground for agent-powered editing and chat. Site
• DriLux — a local-first tool for generating short AI video stories from a few beats and scenes.
• YNAB workflow — syncing budget data, scraping Amazon orders, and using AI to help match and categorize purchases.
• adrianacarioba.com — a static capture + redesign workflow for a public site, with AI helping on structure, cleanup, and visual direction. Repo
• textures.design — a simple refreshed marketing site for a design studio, keeping the stack small and easy to maintain. Repo

Tools

• OpenClaw for planning, drafting, repo spelunking, and quick edits across projects.
• Codex for implementation passes, refactors, and shipping code.
• Claude, Cursor, Antigravity, Conductor, and Grok for alternative takes, debugging, UI cleanup, and comparing how different tools think.
• Ollama for local model experiments when I want to keep things on-device.
• Git as the backbone: I make changes locally, commit, push to main, and a GitHub Action pushes the site to my FTP host. For tiny tweaks, I also keep a direct FTP sync handy.

Site: lucaslongo.com