This website, built by an AI agent
rodholum.com was rebuilt in an afternoon by an AI coding agent working directly on a bare Linux server. No CMS, no page builder, no JavaScript framework.
What it is
The site you are reading. In November 2026 the old five-page version of rodholum.com was replaced with this one, and the build was done by Claude Code, an AI coding agent, working over a terminal on a fresh server that had nothing on it but nginx and a placeholder page.
How it was built
Rod gave the agent a short brief: a professional speaker site that search engines and AI assistants can understand, a private archive for photos, a way for event planners to request him, and a separate section for side projects. He also gave it a handful of links about himself.
From there the agent:
- Read the existing site, the AIBMM speaker profile and the Coulee Tech website to collect facts, instead of making any up.
- Pulled the speaker-kit photos into a private archive outside the web root, then generated web-sized copies of the ones used here.
- Wrote a small Python script that turns one content file and a few Markdown posts into static HTML.
- Added structured data, a sitemap, and an
llms.txtfile so AI assistants get a clean summary of who Rod is.
Why it matters
It is a small, real example of the thing Rod talks about on stage. An agent did hours of careful, boring work in one sitting. A person still set the goal, supplied the facts, and reviewed the result before it went live. That division of labor is the practical version of AI adoption, and it is available to most businesses today.
What is under the hood
- Plain HTML and CSS, about one screen of JavaScript
- A single Python build script with no dependencies
- Self-hosted fonts and images, nothing loaded from third parties