I Built Website Features Live by Just Talking to My AI Agent

So here's the deal. I went live on stream and built actual website features without touching a single line of code. No IDE open, no terminal, no code editor. Just me, my phone, and a Telegram chat with an AI coding agent.

I wanted to show people what's actually possible right now. Not in theory, not in some demo environment, on a real production website. Mom's Guide SA is a directory for family-friendly events and places in San Antonio, and it needed some UI tweaks. So I figured, why not do it live?

The tool I used is called OpenClaw. It's basically a wrapper around a large language model, in my case Claude Opus from Anthropic, that connects to your codebase and lets you talk to it through messaging apps. Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, whatever you prefer. You send it a message in plain English, and it goes into your code, makes the changes, tests them, and deploys to a preview environment.

Here's what blew people's minds during the stream: I told it to remove some suggestion pills from the explore page. While I was still explaining to the audience what I wanted to do, it had already done it. I refreshed the page and they were gone. The whole thing took maybe 30 seconds.

Then I got a little more ambitious. I sent it a screenshot of the page and said the places section looked odd with full-width cards, could it switch to a two-column grid like we have on the places page? A few minutes later, done. CSS columns, responsive, matching the existing design. All while I was talking to the audience about something else entirely.

Now, don't get me wrong. This isn't magic. The AI agent is doing exactly what a developer would do. It reads the codebase, finds the relevant files, makes the changes, checks for errors, and pushes to a preview. The difference is speed and accessibility. You don't need to know React or CSS or TypeScript to tell it what you want.

In my experience, the barrier to building software has completely shifted. It's no longer about knowing how to code. It's about knowing what you want to build. If you can describe it clearly, the AI can build it. And I'm not talking about toy apps. We're running a production site with hundreds of places, events, maps, search, authentication, the whole thing.

This has massive implications for small businesses. Let's say you're a plumber and you've been tracking jobs in a spreadsheet forever. Before, building custom software to replace that spreadsheet would cost you tens of thousands and take months. Now? We can have something working in a week or two. Something that follows YOUR exact process, not some generic SaaS tool that forces you into their workflow.

The other thing I showed on the stream is how this works for field workers. If your team communicates via WhatsApp or Telegram already, the AI agent can plug right into that channel. An installer shows up to a job, sends a message saying they're there, and the agent checks their GPS, logs the check-in, updates the database. They take photos, send them over, and the agent files them in the right project automatically. No app to download, no training needed.

At the end of the day, this is where we are: you can talk to a computer in plain English and it builds things for you. It sounds like science fiction, but I did it live on camera. If you want to see exactly how it works, watch the full stream. And if you're a business owner sitting on a process that should've been automated years ago, now there's really nothing stopping you.