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 tiny pixel by styling it yourself. Then tools like Wix and Squarespace came along where you could build a decent-looking website just by dragging and dropping elements.

Now, we have tools that let you simply describe what you want, and they go ahead and build the entire thing for you exactly how you describe it. All you need to do is the ideating and prompting, and it handles the rest. I wanted to see how far that's really come, so I took Claude Code, Google's Antigravity, and Perplexity Computer, and gave them the exact same job: to create a portfolio website for me. I used the same exact prompts and instructions, and here's how it went...

I asked all three tools to build me the same portfolio

Same prompt and instructions

I've been wanting to create a portfolio website for a while now, but I haven't had time to actually sit down and learn how to build one from scratch. So this felt like the perfect opportunity to finally put all three tools to the test and also get a portfolio website as a result. Now, I didn't really want a generic portfolio. If I did, I'd have just used a template on a tool like Wix! Instead, I wanted an interactive portfolio with fluid animations, a section with all my published work so far, and an AI chatbot integrated that a reader could use to ask questions about all my work.

So, to achieve this, I used the same process across all three tools. Given that all the information I'd like to display within a portfolio website is already available online, I first asked each tool to find everything it could about me (and I mean everything). I told them I'm a journalist, to find my published work online, and to just dig up as much as they can. Then, once they had all that context, I gave them all the same prompt describing exactly what I wanted.

And then, I let each tool do its own thing. Keep in mind that I'm judging the outputs on the very first version each tool produces — no edits, no follow-up prompts, no tweaking from my end. Just the raw first result.

Perplexity Computer

Nailed everything on the first try

While Claude Code and Antigravity are both built primarily for coding and development related tasks, Perplexity Computer is something that's in a bit of a different lane. It's more so positioned as an OpenClaw alternative, and the impressive bit about it is that it has access to multiple AI models. It's based on Anthropic's Opus 4.6 as its core reasoning engine, but it can intelligently route different subtasks to whichever model is best suited for the job. Though I've been an open critic of Perplexity, I've been using Computer a fair bit and it's really impressed me.

The very first task I made it do was this one — building me a portfolio website. Now, right off the bat, I was impressed. As I mentioned above, the first thing I asked these tools was to find everything they can on me. Perplexity took the longest to wrap up its research, but it also returned the most in-depth information, which is exactly what I was looking for. It went as far as digging into my Instagram account, my Twitter, and even found some stuff that I wasn't aware of, like the fact that Authory had featured my account on their website! It was a bit creepy how much AI can find out about you from a single name, but honestly, for this specific use case, that's exactly what I needed.

Once I had sent off my idea to it, it asked a couple of follow-up questions including the visual mood I wanted, the primary audience, a headshot of mine, and if I had any websites or portfolios that I love the vibe of. It then went off and began building! It delegated the task of collecting my articles to Gemini 3 Flash, while Claude Opus 4.6 handled the coding. I hadn't specified a design vibe and gave the tools the freedom to decide. Perplexity Computer went with warm cream and coral tones, had a headshot of me right on the front page and a typewriter style tagline that cycled through different phrases about me. This included tech journalist, CS student, NotebookLM evangelist, professional yapper (which it got off my Instagram)!

It then included links to my socials, a Search My Work button, and a Featured Work section with a filterable grid with the publications I've written at so far and topics I cover. This included a Search Articles bar where you could find an article by searching for it. The exciting part was the "Ask Mahnoor's AI" section which only knew my articles. I tested it out with a bunch of prompts like "What does Mahnoor think of Perplexity" and it mentioned that I have a lot to say about it, and I'm a fan but also honest about shortcomings.

Now, Perplexity's output was the only one that included all my articles published (as I had asked for) and the only one with an AI chatbot that actually worked properly! I barely had any complaints with the output, and this is definitely the portfolio I'm considering actually deploying. It was functional, aesthetically pleasing enough, and most importantly, it actually nailed every single thing I asked for on the first try.

Claude Code built something impressive, but it wasn't quite there yet

I expected better

Claude Code has become one of my favorite AI tools, and my expectations from it for this were high. I began with the same prompt of asking it to conduct in-depth research, and it found decent enough information. It wasn't as detailed as I hoped it would have been (since Claude is typically great at finding information), but for the sake of this experiment, I didn't push it further and moved on to the building prompt. It asked me 10 questions regarding the portfolio including the design layout, the vibe, the AI model I wanted it to use, if I was going to deploy it, and more. Then, it began building.

Out of the three, Claude Code took the longest to build it, and it got stuck at fetching my articles. I had to explicitly then tell it to let that go, and just build it with what it had already parsed since it was just wasting tokens! Claude went with a dark-themed portfolio with violet and amber gradient accents.

The gradient bit made it give off the typical "vibe-coded" look. Similar to Perplexity Computer's portfolio, it included an animated typewriter cycling through phrases like tech journalist, AI explorer, Apple enthusiast, CS student, and open-source advocate. The last one is something I find particularly interesting. I'm surely an open-source advocate, but also, I've only ever written around three articles about open-source tools. So, this was clearly a direct result of the research Claude had done.

I liked the About section Claude came up with, and it included my journey laid out as a visual timeline! It included a publication grid with cards for each outlet I've written for, contact information, and of course, the AI chatbot I asked for along with the My Work section. Now, the My Work section ended at 80 articles since the tool was struggling to parse them. That wasn't what I really cared about here. I know if I'd have let it continue, it would have parsed all 400+ articles. The interesting part was that when I used the chatbot in its current state, a lot of the articles it'd link to just...didn't exist!

For instance, I asked "any pieces on open-source" and it gave three results. Only one of them was an article I remember writing, and the other two were articles it had made up itself! When I clicked on them, they led to a 404 error on the publication's website. The same happened when I asked what I had written about NotebookLM. For context, I've done over 180 pieces 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 portfolio Claude Code produced felt the most polished, the hallucinated articles were a dealbreaker. What good is a portfolio if it links to work that doesn't even exist?

Antigravity was the weakest of the three

It was just...dissapointing

Finally, it was time to put Google's agentic IDE, Antigravity, through the same test. When it came to finding all the information it could about me, the tool searched the web and whipped up an answer within seconds. The information was surface-level and as with Claude, it could have been better, but it was enough to work with. Once I shared my idea with the tool, it came up with a high-level plan and questions about the design vibe and how I'd want the AI chatbot to work. I answered the questions, and then gave it the green light to begin building. Antigravity used Gemini 3.1 Pro to build the whole thing, and it took longer than Perplexity Computer but finished before Claude Code.

Now, remember how I mentioned Claude Code's gradient design made it feel vibe-coded right off the bat? Antigravity's portfolio had the exact same look. Same dark layout, same gradient vibe — if you put the two side by side, you'd struggle to tell which tool built which. Here's what cracked me up, though. Despite taking longer than Perplexity to build this, the portfolio included seven articles only. Seven out of over four hundred articles published! The AI chatbot was also a complete disappointment. One of the seven articles included an article about Perplexity, so I assumed the AI chatbot could at least answer a question about it.

So, I asked it about my thoughts on Perplexity, and it told me:

I don't really have much else to say. The "About" section didn't exist (even though there was an option at the top, but clicking on it led to nothing), the portfolio contained 7 articles, the chatbot didn't work, and the design looked vibe-coded.

I didn't expect this

What I find really ironic is that Perplexity Computer used both Gemini and Anthropic's models to build its portfolio (the very same models that power Claude Code and Antigravity), and still came out on top. It outperformed both tools using their own tech, despite the same prompts and instructions! I wouldn't have expected that.