The site where you are reading this did not exist yesterday morning.
It is not a purchased template or one of those platforms where you drag blocks around until the design looks right. It is a custom site, bilingual, with my visual identity and its own blog. The active building work took about half an hour. The rest of the night went into reviewing, deciding and connecting the domain.
Here is how, because the process matters more than the result: it shows how the way we get things done in companies is changing.
The stack, and why each piece
If a word does not ring a bell, it has a link to the glossary: it opens in a new tab so you can keep reading.
Astro generates the site. It is a framework that turns plain text files (markdown) into static pages. I chose it for a reason that is not technical: my articles already live in markdown, in my note system. Publishing here means moving one file and making one click. No admin panel, no database, no plugins to update.
Vercel shows it to the world. Free plan, automatic HTTPS, global CDN. For a personal site, more than enough.
Namecheap to buy the domain. The only real cost of the whole project: 12 dollars a year.
Claude did the work. And this is the interesting part.
How it was actually built
I did not write the code. I made the decisions: the structure I wanted (one page, about me, contact, blog), the words (every single one went through my review, several times), the visual identity (the same palette and fonts as my LinkedIn carousels), and the rules (bilingual, no services page, no forced publishing schedule).
The AI executed: it generated the site, reviewed it visually on desktop and mobile with screenshots, found its own layout mistakes and fixed them before showing me anything. By the time the result reached me, it had already passed a quality check I did not have to run.
The part that still feels like science fiction
Connecting a domain means logging into the registrar’s panel, deleting old DNS records and creating new ones. It is the kind of task that takes an IT person 20 minutes. For mortals like us, longer: you have to look up the instructions or find a video that shows you how.
This time I told the AI: you do it, take control of my browser.
And it did. It opened the Namecheap panel in my Chrome, deleted the default records every domain comes with, created the right ones, went to the Vercel panel and set up the redirects. I watched the screen while it happened.
Two details that matter more than the show:
One: I typed the passwords myself. The AI stopped at the login page and asked me to sign in. It never sees them, never touches them. It is a rule I set for security.
Two: the AI got something wrong too, and what saved it was verification. Claude set up one record backwards (the main domain pointing to www instead of the other way around). It got caught because after every change the AI checked the work it had just done, not the success message. It is the same rule I apply to any automation: you audit the results, not the reports.
What this means if you run a business
Two years ago, this site was a multi-week project: a developer, a designer, back and forth. Today it was one night, and most of the time went into the part that is actually my job: deciding what to say and how.
AI did not replace judgment. It left it as the only work that those of us running companies cannot delegate. The structure, the voice, the rules about what gets published and what does not: that is still human. The execution moved almost entirely to the AI.
If you have been putting off “the website” (or any project like it) for months because it feels like it will eat too much of your time, open a session with Claude, tell it your idea and start building. I promise it will take you far less time than you think.