AI Agents For WordPress LMS Websites with Vibe Coder Chris Lassiter

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Chris Lassiter of LearnAINow joins Chris Badgett in this episode of LMSCast to demonstrate how AI is revolutionizing web development.

Chris is now developing online courses that show individuals how to create websites completely with AI without using conventional coding. One of his initial classes covers making a website with a new tool called Bolt.new, buying a domain through Route 53, and utilizing AWS to host a website. Chris provides a live demonstration of Bolt.new during the show, which creates full-stack websites using React and JavaScript utilizing AI agents that are probably driven by Anthropic’s models.

The front-end and back-end are automatically built and deployed by the platform, which also has component-based design, light/dark settings, and seamless navigation. In addition to supporting database and payment connections like Supabase and Stripe, it even interacts with GitHub for version control.

Chris demonstrates how to instruct the AI to build all the required code and add features like an admin panel or payment site. Additionally, he draws attention to Bolt.new’s next hackathon, which offers a $100,000 grand prize and $1 million in prizes. He encourages developers of all skill levels to take part, including “vibe coders” like himself who use AI rather than conventional coding.

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Episode Transcript

Chris Badgett: You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking to create, launch, and scale a high value online training program. I’m your guide, Chris Badget. I’m the co-founder of lifter LMS, the most powerful learning management system for WordPress. State of the end, I’ve got something special for you. Enjoy the show.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of LMSCast. I’m joined by a special guest. He’s back on the show. It’s Chris Lasseter. You can find chris@learnainow.ai. Chris does a lot with artificial intelligence. It’s always fun to see what he is been up to. He’s working with agents. He is building entire courses with ai.

We’re gonna do some screen sharing in this episode. So if you’re listening on the podcast and you wanna see what Chris is demoing and talking about, go to the lifter LMS YouTube channel [00:01:00] and do a search for Chris Lasseter, and you’ll find it. Make sure you get the most recent episode or the most recent video so that you can see those screen shares, or you can go to the LMSCast website.

Which has the podcast on it, that’s lms cast.com. It has both the audio and the video version of the podcast. But first, welcome back to the show, Chris. Yeah, thanks Chris. Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be here. Well, you’ve been busy. You’re, uh, going deep in the AI tools and, uh, you’ve been doing a lot of development.

Tell us about what you’ve been up to at Learn AI now. Yeah, so basically we have, uh, been working on courses on the site to teach others on how to use ai. One of our first courses that we’re about to release here in the next week or two is on how to build a website by using just ai. I know you and I, we mainly use WordPress to build our websites.

Chris Lassiter: But the way that I’m doing it for this course is I. To show people on how to use AWS to host your website, how to buy a domain through Route 53. And then we use, uh, a new program called, bolt new to uh, build the website. And that’s what we’ll be showing you today. Awesome. Well, what is Bolt new?

Chris Badgett: What does it do? 

Chris Lassiter: Yeah, so, uh, bolt on new. Basically, uh, allows you to use AI to, to build, uh, a full stack front end, back end of a website, uh, using mainly React and JavaScript. And then you can take, build that project up, and then put it on, uh, like an S3 server for AWS and then bam, you have a front end and a back end of a website.

It does it all for you. Wow. That’s awesome. 

Chris Badgett: Well, I’m excited to jump into the demo if you wanna show us. And again, if you’re listening, come on over to the video version of the podcast on the YouTube channel or lmscast.com. 

Chris Lassiter: Yeah, absolutely. So let me go ahead and click on share screen here.

All right, so you should be seeing my screen here in a second, and it should be the bolt new website. Yep. That’s up. All right. Perfect. So right here, it’s really simple. So let’s say we want to build me a portfolio.

I am a let’s say full stack developer with a w. Certifications.

We’ll just keep it as simple as that. And what we’ll do is we’ll hit go. And so what it’s gonna start doing is it’s gonna start designing you know, the front end and building all the code. And it’s really fantastic. And, you know, something that I’d also, uh, like to point out also if Bolt new right now, they.

Here on May 30th, uh, they’re actually gonna be launching a hackathon with prizes up to, uh, a million dollars worth of prizes, and the main prize is a hundred thousand dollars. And I’ve actually signed up for it. So, you know, if they go to hackathon.dev. They’ll be able to register and it’s gonna be amazing.

I mean, a million dollars in prizes with a hundred thousand dollars as the main prize you know, they’re not sponsoring me, uh, to say that in this video. I just think it’s something that’s just fantastic and people can really, uh, to do it. And it’s for anybody vi a vibe coder like me. ’cause I, I’m not a coder, I’m a vibe coder, you know, I use AI and, you know, I try to understand what’s going on and, you know, I learn as I go.

But this event is for anyone from a beginner to advance. That’s awesome. And as that’s building AI I find a little overwhelming ’cause there’s all these new tools and stuff’s happening really fast. How, how do you 

keep up with it all? So actually I have a routine, uh, throughout my day. So I try to stay focused on my projects during the day.

And then in the evenings you know, while I’m sitting in bed, that’s when I’m actually going through, uh, YouTube and notifications, uh, you know, from, you know, lifter LMSs notifications on Facebook, you know, or, there’s some people I follow on YouTube and I just start going through, you know, all the new ai, uh, that’s being released.

And I just try to, to try to stay ahead of everyone and, and try to remember what’s going on. ’cause you know, if you, if you don’t, if you don’t. Stay ahead. You know, you’re gonna fall behind. 

Chris Badgett: Yeah, that’s a, that’s a great point. And it’s amazing watching what Bull New is doing here. This would take a developer, weeks, months to do what you’re doing and like a podcast episode, and then not even the whole episode.

It’s awesome. 

Chris Lassiter: Yeah, so right here, what you see right now, um, is it’s installing all the dependencies on the server. After it, it kind of broke down on what it’s doing. Uh, it kind of tells you how, you know, for the navigation it’s gonna be smooth scrolling badges for AWS uh, it’s talking about the design elements.

And then what it’s doing is it’s creating every single component that it needs for this React website. And then once it’s done, it’s gonna show you a preview of it. And that’s where you can actually start, uh, modifying anything that you want changed. And what’s really cool is recently they actually just added a selection, a selector on here.

So you can actually select components or elements on the site and actually say specifically, Hey, change this. So that’s really cool. And another thing that they just added is GitHub connection. So once you have this saved, you can actually save it to your GitHub, and then you can take it to another IDE like, uh, you know, c