No-Code Cursor + Replit Development Using AI - Building a Recipe Generator (part 3)
From Dan 'Crypto' Camacho
In Part 3 of this no-code build series, the creator continues developing a recipe generator app using Replit and Cursor AI, without writing any code by hand. The episode covers committing and syncing the project to GitHub, then making blog cards clickable and generating individual blog post pages, with a focus on front-end design only. It's a candid look at AI-assisted development, including the slowdowns, sync hiccups, and the shift to a more modular, component-by-component approach that wor...
Key Takeaways
- Building a full app with AI can work, but chunking big projects into modular components beats asking for everything at once.
- Syncing to remote matters: a local commit means nothing until you push it, so GitHub only updates after a manual sync.
- AI-generated code can make a site look polished fast, but it still needs human judgment on layout choices like one vs. two columns.
- Keep AI on frontend-only tasks first; mixing design and backend work confuses the tool and slows progress.
- Vibe-coding a working site without writing code is real, but 'functional' and 'impressive-looking' are not the same thing yet.
Mentioned in this episode
- Replit (Product)
- Cursor AI (Product)
- Twitter (Company)
- Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) (Product)
- Pine Script (Product)
- AI Wallets (Concept)
- Web 3.0 (Concept)
- Coinbase (Company)
- TradingView (Product)
- GitHub (Product)