Building a Website with Agentic AI

I have a webcomic that I have always kept online, even though nobody ever reads it. I thought with this new website I would bite the bullet, turn it into a static website, and host it with my other new sites. Starting with ChatGPT and a blank folder I desribed roughly how I wanted the website structured. I would use Eleventy again as it means I can still add new episodes, much as I add new blog posts.

It thought about it for a minute and created a website that was structured how I want it. There was a home page, About page and a page for each episode. And an archive. Pointing it at the live website I told it to copy the first episode over. It did it, images, comments and titles. Clever, I thought. I got it to do a few more. This is easy. It was having to go off, scrape the page, download the image and make sense of it all. Now I have a dump of the database and a folder with all the comics in. It turns out it could in fact open an SQL Server database export, load it into a localdb database, read one of the tables and dump its contents to a spreadsheet. All in a fration of the time it would have taken me.

By this point I was gobsmacked. It could take a brief instruction, a website and a database and work out what needed doing in the context of those three things. Within a morning I had a working webcomic with 150+ episodes. The interesting thig was, it didn't really make any mistakes or bad assumptions.