2025
Voice-driven editing workflow
Created a Claude Web + GitHub workflow that allows editing this web site using voice on a phone.
We are at a point with modern AI "frontier" models that you can edit most web apps and web sites at more than "good enough" quality.
Meaning that while the process still needs a good technical foundation, defined workflows, context, constant human oversight and occasional pushback -
... given those, you can issue very vague instructions like "move that box from the front page with the slides about my language skills to the about page and make it style dark but no drop shadow"....
.... and there's a huge chance the task will be carried out with no need for correction at all.
Throw in a bunch of simple skills for tasks like image optimization, video clipping, and accessibility, and you can even expect images or videos copy-pasted into the prompt to be integrated into the site perfectly and with perfect performance.
Combine this with proper version control or even Git Worktrees... and a dictation tool like Wispr Flow... and you have a magical editing experience that you can deploy and roll back with the sound of your voice.
That's how I built this very site you are browsing. Touching very little code.
Now, this setup is admittedly still very developer-centric. It works well primarily for one-person websites (although it can handle really complex ones).
But it comes with zero technical dependency - the code created is run-of-the-mill Laravel, HTML, CSS, and image files, all built on Laravel 13 with its strict conventions, which act as guardrails for the AI working on the code.
And feels like a glimpse into the near future of building and editing web sites.
The modern Internet user has zero tolerance for friction... and believe me, once you build a web site this, a CMS starts feeling like consisting of nothing but friction.
That doesn't mean there won't be CMS's in the future. Enterprise multi-user environments will always need strong permissions systems, publication workflows, and the like.
But the way we interact even with those systems is about to fundamentally change.
For an independent-minded solo entrepreneur, artist, photographer, author, small business who
- wants to also build and maintain their web site with mainly a microphone
- wants this to work with code that they own and can take to any hosting provider instead of it being stuck in a silo
- is fine with the workflow still being a little technical
...this future could be reality today! Let's talk.