Web development has changed massively in the last few years. There was a time when building a website meant dealing with raw HTML and CSS and obsessing over every little pixel by designing it yourself. Then came tools like Wix and Squarespace where you can create a decent looking website just by dragging and dropping elements.
Now we have tools that let you just describe what you want and they go ahead and build everything for you exactly how you describe it. All you need to do is provide ideas and encouragement and it takes care of the rest. I wanted to see how far it could really go, so I took Claude Code, Google’s Antigravity and Perplexity Computers and gave them the same job: build a portfolio website for me. I used the same prompts and instructions and here’s how it went…
Same instructions and instructions
I’ve been wanting to create a portfolio website for a while, but haven’t had the time to actually sit down and learn how to build one from scratch. So this felt like the perfect opportunity to finally test out all three tools and finally get a portfolio website. Now, I really didn’t want a generic portfolio. If I did, I’d just use a template in a tool like Wix! Instead, I wanted an interactive portfolio with fluid animations, a section with all my published work so far, and an integrated AI chatbot that the reader can use to ask questions about all my work.
So I used the same process in all three tools to achieve this. Given that all the information I wanted to display on the portfolio website was already online, I first asked each tool to find everything it could possibly have about me (and I mean everything). I told them that I was a journalist and that they should find my published work on the Internet and do as much digging as they could. Then, once I had all that context, I gave them the same instruction that described exactly what I wanted.
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And then I let each tool do its thing. Note that I judge results on the first version each tool produces – no edits, no follow-up requests, no corrections on my end. Just the first result.
Confusion Computer
I got everything on the first try
While Claude Code and Antigravity are both built primarily for coding and development-related tasks, Perplexity Computer is something in a slightly different lane. this positioned more as an OpenClaw alternativeand its impressive part is that it has access to multiple AI models. It is based on Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 as the main reasoning engine, but it can intelligently route various subtasks to the model best suited for the job. While I’m an outspoken critic of clutter, I’ve used the Computer enough that I’m impressed.
The first thing I did was create a portfolio website. Now immediately I was impressed. As I mentioned above, the first thing I asked these remedies was to find everything they could on me. The confusion research took the longest to complete, but it also returned the most insightful information, which is exactly what I was looking for. It went as far as messing with my Instagram account, Twitter, and even found things I didn’t know about, like Authori displaying my account on their website! It was a little scary how much the AI could learn about you from a single name, but honestly, that’s what I needed for this particular use case.
After I sent him my idea, he asked a few questions, including the visual mood I wanted, my main audience, my header image, and if I had any websites or portfolios that I liked. Then it turned off and started sewing! He left Gemini 3 Flash to compile my articles, while Claude Opus 4.6 did the coding. I didn’t set a design vibe and let the tools decide. Confusion Computer went with warm cream and coral tones, right on the front page was my headshot and a typewriter-style tagline that looped through various statements about me. This includes a tech journalist, CS student, NotebookLM evangelist, professional speaker (this one came from my Instagram)!
It then included links to my social networks, a Search My Work button, and a Featured Work section with a filterable grid of publications I’ve written so far and topics I’ve covered. This includes a Search Articles panel that you can find by searching for an article. The interesting part was the “Ask Mahnoor’s AI” section that only knows about my articles. I tested it with a bunch of polls like “What does Mahnoor think of Confusion” and noted that I have a lot to say about it, and I’m a fan, but I’m also honest about the flaws.
Now, Perplexity’s output was the only one that included all my published articles (as I wanted) and the only one with an AI chatbot that actually worked properly! I’ve had almost no complaints about the output and this is a portfolio I’m really considering implementing. It was functional, aesthetically pleasing enough, and most importantly, it nailed everything I wanted on the first try.
Claude Code created something impressive, but it wasn’t quite there yet
I expected better
Claude Code has become one of my favorite AI toolsand my expectations were high. I started by asking him to do some deep research and he found some pretty decent information. It wasn’t as detailed as I’d hoped (because Claude is usually great at finding information), but for the sake of this experiment I didn’t push it any further and moved on to the build guide. He asked me 10 questions about the portfolio, including the design layout, the vibe, the AI model I wanted to use, if I planned to post it, and more. Then construction began.
Of the three, Claude Code took the longest to set up and was stuck taking my articles. I should have told him flat out to drop it and just set it up with what he already analyzed because he wasted verses! Claude went with a dark themed briefcase with purple and amber gradient accents.
The gradient bit forced it to give a typical “vibe-coded” look. Similar to Perplexity Computer’s portfolio, it includes an animated typewriter that cycles through terms such as tech journalist, AI researcher, Apple enthusiast, CS student, and open source advocate. The latter is something I find particularly interesting. I’m definitely an open source advocate, but I’ve only written three articles about open source tools. So this was a direct result of the research that Claude did.
I loved the About section that Claude made and he laid out my journey as a visual graphic! This includes the publishing network with cards for each outlet I write about, contact information, and of course the AI chatbot I requested along with the My Work section. Now the My Work section ended up with 80 articles because the tool was having trouble parsing them. That’s not what I’m really interested in here. I know it would have analyzed all 400+ articles if I had let it continue. The interesting part was that when I used the chatbot in its current state, many of the articles it would link to were simply… not available!
For example, I asked “any piece of open source” and it returned three results. Only one of them was an article I remembered, and the other two were articles he made up! When I clicked on them, they caused a 404 error on the publication’s website. The same thing happened when I asked what I wrote about NotebookLM. For context, I produced over 180 articles about the tool, and the AI chatbot it created gave me 7 results, and 4 of them didn’t exist. So while the structure of the Claude Code portfolio felt the most polished, the hallucinatory articles were a bargain. What good is a portfolio if it transitions to a job that never existed?
Antigravity was the weakest of the three
It was just…disappointing
Finally, it’s time to put Google’s agent IDE, Antigravitythrough the same test. When it came to finding all the information it could about me, the tool searched the web and came up with an answer in seconds. The information was surface level and, as with Claude, it could have been better, but it was enough to work with. After I shared my idea with the tool, he asked questions about the high-level plan and design atmosphere and how I wanted the AI chatbot to work. I answered the questions and then gave the green light to start construction. Antigravity used Gemini 3.1 Pro to build everything, and it took longer than Perplexity Computer, but finished before Claude Code.
Now, remember how I mentioned Claude Code’s gradient design that instantly gave it a vibe coded feel? Antigravity’s portfolio had the same look. Same dark layout, same gradient vibe — put the two side by side, and you’d be hard-pressed to tell which instrument is built from which. This is what confuses me though. Although it took more time to build than Confusion, there are only seven articles in the portfolio. Seven out of over four hundred articles published! The AI chatbot was also a total disappointment. One in seven articles had an article about Confusion, so I assumed the AI chatbot could at least answer a question about that.
So I asked him his thoughts on Confusion and he told me:
Hmmm, I couldn’t find an exact match for this in my portfolio! Try asking about “NotebookLM”, “ChatGPT” or “eReaders”!
I really don’t have much to say. There was no “About” section (although there was an option at the top, clicking on it didn’t return anything), the portfolio had 7 articles, the chatbot didn’t work, and the design vibe seemed coded.
I didn’t expect that
What I find really ironic is that Perplexity Computer used models from both Gemini and Anthropic to build their portfolio (the same models that powered Claude Code and Antigravity) and still came out on top. Despite the same instructions and instructions, it outperformed both tools using its own technology! I didn’t expect that.
