Resident Agnostic.. sharing the good news about Ai

[AgnosticBoy]

Hello forum. Good to see the forum is alive and well.

I'm one of the old school resident agnostics here. I'm still agnostic although I've extended my agnosticism into politics instead of just philosophy/religion ; )

I took a break from the forum here because I started my own forum with very basic web development skills. That was a pain and expensive. I had to learn a lot of stuff on my own, not too mention that some expert devs were snobby and didn't want to answer questions unless you paid them.

The good news I bring is that Ai is becoming advanced enough to where you can fully build your own websites, including forums, blogs, marketplaces, etc. I am not a computer dev. by any means and I've been able to build a blog site and other experimental apps using Ai.

The best Ai vibe coding tool I've used so far is Claude Code. Compared to other Ai coding tools I've used, I can say that Claude makes little mistakes and it builds quality looking web apps! I just type what I want (design, features, etc) and Claude gets to building it for me. But one limitation is that you need to find a hosting provider to host and run your app, like AWS, Godaddy, etc. Currently, my apps are hosted on a new platform (blockchain-based tech) called the Internet Computer Protocol. I haven't tried moving my app to Godaddy or any other hosting provider yet.

I'll post some screenshots of a blog I built.

Anyone else tried using Ai to build websites?

[AgnosticBoy]

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[otseng]

Welcome back!

At work, they have forced all of us developers to be AI developers and I'm now all-in with AI. I use Claude extensively at work and at home. Since the beginning of this year, it's pretty much taken all my time, even away from posting on this forum.

I posted info about my first AI created app at:
viewtopic.php?t=43230

Do you the Anthropic models? How much do you spend per month? Myself, I've been trying to find cheaper alternatives to the Anthropic models, yet still use Claude. Myself, I'm broken the $100 / month with all the personal projects I'm working on.

[AgnosticBoy]

Welcome back!

Thanks!

I posted info about my first AI created app at:
viewtopic.php?t=43230

That's an excellent use case for Ai!

Some 5 to 10 years ago, I had to rely on 5 or more different online resources (also bought countless # of books- too many) to offer informed views on the Bible. And now you have this all in one app and it's updatable for $1?! Wow.

Do you the Anthropic models? How much do you spend per month? Myself, I've been trying to find cheaper alternatives to the Anthropic models, yet still use Claude. Myself, I'm broken the $100 / month with all the personal projects I'm working on.

Most of my blog app was built with Claude's Opus 5 model. Used Fable for one or two updates.

I'm on the $20/monthly pro plan. I wish I had started with the $100/month plan at least when I was first building my website from scratch. With the $20 plan, my credits/daily limits were drained quickly so I also paid for 3 credit top ups worth $150. I probably spent about $200 to build the bulk of my blog. Maybe would've been less if I used a cheaper Ai model like Sonnet.

I stick to the $20 plan since it's enough for me to do update features/troubleshooting for my blog.

[otseng]

I'm on the $20/monthly pro plan. I wish I had started with the $100/month plan at least when I was first building my website from scratch. With the $20 plan, my credits/daily limits were drained quickly so I also paid for 3 credit top ups worth $150. I probably spent about $200 to build the bulk of my blog. Maybe would've been less if I used a cheaper Ai model like Sonnet.

$200 is not bad for building a blog.

I actually have never used any Anthropic models at home. I'm too cheap so I use Ollama and various Chinese models. It has good integration with Claude. And sometimes, Ollama will let you try out some models for free for a few days.