Over the weekend, I had fun with Codex 5.3.
For a long time, I wanted to change the theme of my personal website.
My website is built with Hugo. While there are plenty of themes, finding the perfect one is hard.
So I figured, why not use AI to change the design of my website?
And so I went. I described what I wanted to achieve:
- Modern design
- Fix the privacy bar
- Always show the top bar while scrolling
- Use Playwright to validate your changes - this allowed Codex to see the changes it was making
Codex asked a few clarifying questions, and magic happened:
- It scanned the repo and realised its structure
- Created a plan of what to change
- It started implementing first changes to the theme
After a few iterations, we’ve got a look which I liked.
On a few occasions, I pasted screenshots with explanations of what should be changed. Nothing fancy - a screenshot with read squares and information to remove/move certain parts of the page.
The result is at the screenshot below. New on the left, previous on the right.
Codex allowed me to do something I wanted for a very long time. It took one evening.
And it allowed me to create something different, something bespoke.