Ditching the CMS: A Developer's Practice of Building a Website Purely with AI Agents
rseroter · x · 2026-08-06
A developer shared her experiment of abandoning traditional Content Management Systems (CMS) to build a personal website from scratch in the AI era.
She relied entirely on an agentic toolkit for development, with a core stack including:
- Dev Platforms: Google Antigravity (primary) and Claude Code for Mac (secondary).
- Model Roles: Gemini 3.1 Pro and 3.6 Flash as software engineering agents, Claude Opus 5 as a software architect & security agent, and Gemini Image for visuals.
The author compares AI to a super-fast yet unpredictable race car, warning that it can easily go off the rails and generate mangled spaghetti code. Despite the horrors, the experiment showcases a new paradigm for database-free, CMS-less, AI-driven web development.
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