May 19, 2026

My Vibe Coding Experience

AIwebsitedeployment

This is the first time I have used an AI agent to help me build a website from scratch. Overall, my experience has been excellent.

The agent I used was Codex. I first asked it to generate a plan, and it showed me a comparison of stack options, including frontend and backend frameworks, hosting providers, and domains. It eventually suggested an “Astro” + “Cloudflare” stack plan.

Challenges

  • I had to search Astro’s documentation to deploy my website to Cloudflare: How to deploy with CI/CD
  • I saw this error in the deployment log:
01:28:10.001	Executing user deploy command: npx wrangler versions upload
01:28:10.480	Wrangler requires at least Node.js v22.0.0. You are using v20.20.2. Please update your version of Node.js.
01:28:10.480	
01:28:10.480	Consider using a Node.js version manager such as https://volta.sh/ or https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm.
01:28:10.500	Failed: error occurred while running deploy command

I needed to update the Node.js version to at least Node.js v22.0.0.

Cost

  • Codex Plus plan: $20/month
  • Cloudflare domain registration: $11.82/year

What I learned from it

AI is a good tool for helping people complete different kinds of tasks. However, we should not rely on AI completely. We still need to know how to verify its work and fix bugs.