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July 10, 20263 minutes read

Eight case pages in one night, built by an orchestra of agents

Eight case pages from eight Figma files in one night, built by AI agents running in parallel. The part that decided whether the result was any good happened before the run.

A collage of the eight portfolio case covers

The portfolio on this site is eight cases. Each one has its own character, color, temperature and composition, taken from a Figma file I drew myself. I am Alexander Chernov, and I did not build the pages. An orchestra of AI agents did, each agent on its own case, all of them at once.

The part that decides everything in a story like this is not the model.

The score matters more than the orchestra#

“Here is the Figma, make it beautiful” would have produced eight versions of one template, smoothed and dead. So I wrote three documents before any agent started.

The first was art direction, one paragraph of character per case. OptionStream is dark trading on a night shift, TClub is a gold halo on black, ATON Space is space blue and weightless. A paragraph like that forbids a template harder than any rule does.

The second was a copy guide: voice, banned words, paragraph length, and my feelings about bold text and dashes.

The third was a review punch list, the checklist a second wave of reviewer agents works through. It runs from “does content leak past the viewport” to “did lazy loading eat the animation”.

After that it goes like an orchestra. The score is shared, the parts are not, and the conductor stops the wrong note.

What the agents did well#

Craft. Cutting assets out of the files, building the responsive layout, prefixing class names so the cases do not leak into each other, repeating the compositional moves of the mockup in markup. Eight pages in parallel. A person needs a week for that. The orchestra needed a night.

Where I had to conduct#

Sameness. Two agents independently invented the same “original” move, which means the move was not original. Those places were rebuilt with a direct instruction quoted from the art direction.

Confident nonsense. One case came back with a beautifully built section full of facts that were never in the mockup. The agent had made them up. The review wave caught it. The punch list has had a line about checking every fact against the source ever since, and it is the one item on the list I would not hand to an agent.

Image quality. The agents saved weight by default. I overruled them: quality over kilobytes, weight limit gone. That call does not go to an algorithm. It is a question of values, and algorithms optimize.

AI closes the distance between taste and result. The taste is still your problem.

An orchestra of agents is nothing like a button that returns a website. It moves the profession up the stack. Fewer hands in the markup, more judgment in the art direction. The documents I wrote before the run are the design. Everything after them is execution, and execution is cheap now.

One thing I have not tested is how this survives a year of edits by someone else. Eight case pages test craft well and maintenance not at all.

Judge the result in the portfolio. Eight rooms, no template.