[TL;DR] Positive news about AI in science, engineering, medicine, and math deserves attention. An early morning idea turned into a ChatGPT Site in 90 minutes.
Here it is the site: Better with AI
There’s been so much negative talk about potential problems with AI and the datacenters that they require that on Tuesday morning I got the idea that I should write an article about the good that AI is doing. I prompted Gemini Chat to do some research and we identified four significant scientific developments that would be the basis for the article. Then on Wednesday morning during my routine stretching, I came across a YouTube that introduced me to ChatGPT Sites, a new feature for building web sites with just vibes. So why not replace the article with a web site?
ChatGPT Sites is Codex behind a chat interface. With it you create the site through a prompt, very much like other vibe coding platforms like Replit, Lovable and Bolt. Here’s my initial prompt:
@sites Build a site that catalogs AI developments in science, engineering, medicine, and math. The purpose of the site is to highlight for interested readers how AI is improving our world. I have some developments to tart with, one from each of the four categories. What I’d like to do is have you write a preliminary version that I can then edit before publication. Then each week, we’ll pull together a set of updates to add to the site. So my suggested organization is the home page saying “New Discoveries” and then four category pages that have the history of our entries in the categories.
Here’s what I found to start with:
And then I listed the four suggested topics that Gemini had identified: AlphaFold, GNoME, AlphaTensor, and an AI-assisted quality system for colonoscopies. Each one had a link to an academic article on the subject.
Codex proposed possible visual directions. I selected a scholarly, journal-inspired design and asked Codex to build the homepage, category archives, article pages, navigation, and source links. That took about eight minutes of churning during which I had to give permission for several of the steps.
From there, editing became conversational. I requested larger article titles, simpler category labels, clickable headlines, author information, and other refinements. Codex translated those instructions into changes across the site’s TypeScript and CSS files.
Theirs is no page editor in the Sites process, so making each change, particularly wording changes gets tedious. A partial solution is to open the project in Visual Studio Code. This let me edit files to revise article text and see how the content was organized. The files are Typescript and CSS stored on your computer. Editing text that’s contained as strings in a Typescript file is not particularly easy, but at least I know my way around. Previewing the changes requires running the site from VS Code so I could view the site in a browser. That’s a stop-and-start kind of editing. When I was done Codex checked that the site built correctly and after a couple of iterations, I told it to publish it to the internet. Access to the code is a significant difference from other vibe coding tools.
As of Mid-July 2026, Sites is in it’s early stages. Public Beta began July 9, 2026. I’m sure it’ll improve, and maybe I’ll be able to improve how I work with the tool. But for a 90 minutes investment in prompting and editing I got a web site. If you don’t want to edit code all the changes can be handled with Codex prompting. I’m going to make more sites soon.
Let me know what you think about ChatGPT Sites and about Better with AI