Hello AI Friends,

This week we explored how you can clone a website with AI from just the URL – a powerful example of how “vibe coding” is democratizing web development.

We did a deep dive into AI-driven video creation with demonstrations of how to create personalized AI avatars that can lip-sync to your own voice recordings. This technology is becoming increasingly accessible, allowing anyone to create professional-looking video content with just a few dollars and some basic tools.

Our group problem-solving session tackled email automation challenges for news publishing businesses, highlighting the multiple approaches to streamlining customer service workflows with AI.

See you next week,

Harry Verity

Bali AI Meetup host

Co-Founder, AI To The World

Attendees:

• Harry Verity (Host) – Tech journalist, AI consultant, and founder of AI to the World
• Sean – News publishing business owner with 57 AI-powered sites
• Alan – Machine learning engineer specializing in real estate
• Several attendees working in self-driving cars and AI automation
• Julian – Background in data analytics and project management
• Don – Healthcare sector veteran starting an AI application company
• Kyle – Startup founder focusing on AI and SEO Various professionals from tech, consulting, and engineering fields
• Dev Chandra (online) – AI agency owner at Process Hacker
• Will (online) – AI product marketer specializing in agentic workflows
• Additional participants both in-person and online

Key Topics Discussed:

1. Microsoft’s Xbox AI Co-Pilot for Gaming

Microsoft is introducing an Xbox AI Co-Pilot feature for Xbox gaming, designed to provide personalized support and guidance while playing games.

• Real-time game guidance through natural conversation
• Uses AI to watch gameplay and offer situation-specific advice
• Similar to AI agents that can analyze screenshots and video

Group Opinions:

• Discussion about whether AI assistance defeats the purpose of playing games
• Questions about the computing resources being allocated to gaming versus other applications
• Recognition that the technology could reduce frustration for players stuck on difficult levels

2. The Rise of Website Cloning with same.dev

The group explored same.dev, a new tool that can clone any website by simply inputting the URL.

• Takes screenshots of a website and reverse-engineers the code
• Recreates the site using modern frameworks like Tailwind and Next.js
• Allows users to modify and customize the cloned site
• Functions without requiring coding knowledge

Group Opinions:

• Debate about the legality and copyright implications of website cloning
• Analysis of how the tool likely uses advanced language models (possibly Claude 3.7)
• Discussion about business viability and sustainability of such tools
• Observations about how this represents another step in the democratization of web development

3. Email Automation Solutions for News Publishing

Sean presented his company’s challenge of handling high volumes of customer service emails for their 57 news sites.

Proposed Solutions:

• Implementation of AI-powered email management tools like Superhuman with its built-in AI features
• Using sentiment analysis to automatically categorize and route emails
• Creating rule-based systems with “if this, then that” logic for common queries
• Building custom workflows using tools like N8N to integrate with existing systems
• Exploring gradual implementation with human oversight before full automation

Technical Deep Dives:

1. AI Video Creation with Lip-Sync Technology

Harry demonstrated how to create professional-looking AI videos with realistic lip-syncing:

• Create a personalized LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) model using 5-6 photos
• Use Klingv1.6 Pro to generate video clips with lip movement
• Download video and add custom audio using lip-sync tools
• Edit multiple clips together for longer videos

Technical Insights:

• Each 10-second clip costs approximately $1 to generate
• The videos are created at 30fps, generating 300 individual frames that must remain consistent
• Alan explained the underlying “back propagation through time” technology that makes this possible
• Discussion of how transformer models process all images simultaneously rather than sequentially

2. The Economics and Limitations of AI Creation Tools

The group discussed the financial and practical constraints of current AI tools:

• Cost breakdown of Harry’s demo video: approximately $5 for three 10-second clips plus training costs
• API pricing making agent frameworks expensive for practical implementation
• Challenges of scaling these technologies for longer-form content

Technical Limitations:

• Maximum video length constraints (typically 10 seconds per generation)
• Audio recording limits in lip-sync tools
• Workarounds for creating longer content by stitching multiple clips together

3. Industry Perspectives

A significant discussion emerged around how AI might disrupt established SaaS businesses:

• Question of whether companies like Salesforce should be concerned about AI-built alternatives
• Analysis of migration challenges for large enterprises with deeply integrated systems
• Recognition that newer companies might adopt AI-built solutions from the start
• Discussion of the security and reliability requirements for enterprise software

4. “Vibe Coding” and Democratization of Development

The group explored the emerging concept of “vibe coding” – non-developers creating applications:

• Term coined in the last few weeks following releases of Grok 3 and Claude 3.7
• Represents casual coding without technical knowledge
• Potential risks discussed, including a cautionary tale of a viral SaaS product that was compromised due to basic security oversights
• Importance of maintaining some technical oversight even with AI-generated code

5. Extra

• Future of the web – AI expert Andrej Karpathy envisions a web where 99.9% of content is optimized for AI, not humans