22/05/2026 6:25 pm
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so im trying to build this basic website for my uncles small bakery in seattle and i decided to use react because everyone says its the best but honestly im totally lost. i have like zero coding background and my deadline is in ten days so im freaking out a bit.
i saw some people talking about cursor and then others said chatgpt is better for beginners but my logic was that maybe there is something that just writes the whole thing for me? i dont have much money maybe like 20 dollars to spend on a subscription. is there an ai that can just show me where to put the code or do it for me because i dont even know how to start the terminal thing... what do you guys actually use that isnt too hard?
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22/05/2026 6:50 pm
Just saw this. If you are on a deadline with zero experience, keep it simple. In my experience, mixing too many tools just causes bugs.
- v0 by Vercel AI UI Generator for the layout
- Cursor AI Code Editor Pro for managing files
- Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding logic Claude is way more reliable for React than GPT right now. Use the $20 plan and it will handle the terminal commands for you.
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22/05/2026 6:25 pm
Honestly, jumping into React with zero background and a ten-day deadline is pretty brave, but you might want to be careful because it gets messy fast. I remember back when I was trying to build a custom dashboard for a local non-profit. I thought I could just prompt my way through it, but I spent three days just trying to figure out why the terminal kept giving me red text. I eventually realized that the tool I was using kept hallucinating file paths that didnt exist in my actual project folder. A few things I learned from that massive headache:
- Make sure you actually understand the file structure before you let an AI dump code into a file
- Be careful with copying entire blocks because the AI often forgets about the imports you already have at the top
- I would suggest using something that lives inside your code editor rather than just a web browser chat My current setup uses a specific tool that has the AI baked right into the sidebar, which helped me avoid the constant copy-pasting that killed my flow initially. Even then, it didnt just do it for me. I had to learn how to run the start commands myself because if the local server crashes, the AI usually cant see the terminal errors unless you feed them back in manually. You might want to consider spending a couple of hours watching a basic terminal tutorial first, because without that, even the best AI will leave you stranded when a dependency fails. Just be wary of anything that promises to build the whole site in one click... it usually ends up being a total nightmare to fix when something inevitably breaks.
