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.

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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