{
 "id": 76059,
 "slug": "rebuilding-a-fifteen-year-old-tool-in-one-evening-with-an-agent-without-a-cms",
 "url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/rebuilding-a-fifteen-year-old-tool-in-one-evening-with-an-agent-without-a-cms/",
 "language": "en",
 "title": "Rebuilding a fifteen year old tool in one evening with an agent, without a CMS",
 "subtitle": "Start from nothing, then decide what structure the result deserves.",
 "summary": "In February 2026 I rebuilt a fifteen year old tool of mine in one evening with an AI agent, one hundred percent client side and without any of my own systems. The result changed how I think about all of them.",
 "topics": [
  "AI",
  "design",
  "experiment",
  "programming",
  "web",
  "work"
 ],
 "date": "2026-02-09",
 "published": "2026-02-09T23:00:00+01:00",
 "created": "2026-09-08T11:20:01.531000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-08T11:48:55.550000+02:00",
 "full_article_url": "https://willem.com/en/2026-02-09_the-best-system-is-no-system/",
 "author": {
  "name": "Willem L. Middelkoop",
  "url": "https://willem.com"
 },
 "note": "A short distillation of a longer willem.com post. Not currently published on willem.com itself.",
 "answers_question": "What happens when you rebuild an old tool with an AI agent and no CMS at all?",
 "text": "The exercise was to let go of the structures I built over the years, the content management system included, and see what the technology could do from a blank canvas. An old archive went in, a tool that runs entirely in the browser came out, in one evening.\nMost of my systems survived that test. The point was not the tool but the method: set out to learn as much as possible by temporarily dropping existing rules, and only afterwards decide what structure the result deserves.\nWithin thirty-six hours the approach had already fed into new work, and by June it became MP1, the publisher that ships as a ZIP inside my own CMS.",
 "markdown_url": "https://agents.willem.com/en/snippets/rebuilding-a-fifteen-year-old-tool-in-one-evening-with-an-agent-without-a-cms/snippet.md"
}