June 20, 2026 · Joaquim
How I build websites fast with Claude Code
I use an AI coding assistant called Claude Code to build sites faster. Here is the honest version of what it does, what it cannot do, and why that is good for your business.
People hear that I use an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help build websites and they picture a robot doing all the work while I sip coffee. It is not like that, and I think the honest version is more interesting anyway.
The tool is Claude Code. It is a coding assistant from Anthropic that I work alongside, the way a chef works with a very fast, very tireless prep cook. I tell it what I want built. It writes a first pass of the code. I read every line, fix what is off, and decide what actually ships. The judgment is mine. The speed is the tool's.
What it is good at
Claude Code is fantastic at the repetitive, fiddly parts of building a site. Setting up the structure, wiring pages together, writing the kind of boilerplate that is necessary but not creative. The stuff that used to eat an afternoon now takes a few minutes, which means I spend my time on the parts that actually matter for your business: how the site feels, how fast it loads, and how easy it is for a customer to take action.
It is also a great second set of eyes. I can ask it to check my work, hunt for a bug, or explain a piece of code I did not write, and it does that in seconds.
What it is not
It is not magic, and it is not a replacement for knowing what you are doing. AI tools confidently get things wrong. They will write code that looks right and quietly does the wrong thing. If you cannot read the output and catch the mistakes, you ship the mistakes. That is the part people miss.
So I do not let it run unsupervised. I check the real result every time, the actual page loading in a real browser, not just the promise that it should work. A site is not done because the tool says it is done. It is done when I have seen it work.
Why this is good for you
The plain benefit is this. Using Claude Code well, I can build a sharp, fast, custom website in a fraction of the time it used to take, without cutting corners on quality. That speed is part of how I can offer a full site with no upfront cost. The tool does the grunt work, I do the thinking, and you get a better site sooner. That is the whole trick, and there is no shame in it.