I've been running LinkaGoGo since 2001. Here's what it took to rebuild it from scratch with AI. About a year ago, I tried using AI coding assistants. The results were disappointing — occasionally there'd be a magic moment, but most of the time the code didn't work and required extensive debugging. I walked away and wrote it off as hype. Then, this February, two things made me reconsider. My sister mentioned her company was exploring AI to automatically resolve JIRA tickets. And a blog post described building real applications in vanilla HTML/CSS/JavaScript — no frameworks — with AI assistance. Something had changed. I decided to find out what. A Brief History: 25 Years of Bookmarks LinkaGoGo went live in May 2001 — before "social bookmarking" was a phrase, before del.icio.us existed, when storing bookmarks online so you could reach them from any computer felt genuinely futuristic. Over the years, the codebase accumulated layers. Features were bolted on. The UI got tweaks but never a rethink.…