#017 — Live Build: Mini X in 2 Hours with an AI Agent
Date: September 4, 2026 | 19:00 London / 21:00 Kyiv
Format: Live coding (agentic coding) · ~2 hours — a special longer episode Guest: Oleksandr Blazheiko
YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/IGudWZHHq_I
Participants
Oleh Levchenko — Senior Full Stack JavaScript Developer (React / Node.js / AWS)
The AA · Cardiff, UK
YouTube @zloyleva · itfriday.community
Oleksandr Blazheiko — Software Development Engineer · Fullstack
Ukraine
LinkedIn · itvibe.party
Twelfth appearance on IT Friday — previous one was #016, where Oleksandr walked through writing specifications for AI agents. Today he's a guest advisor: commenting on decisions and occasionally sharing his own screen, while Oleh drives the live coding.
What we'll cover
Following the community's Telegram vote after #016, we're doing the practical follow-up: build a small but fully working web app live in ~2 hours with an AI agent. The community picked mini X — a small Twitter-like app.
Oleh writes the code with Claude Code (Codex as fallback), working from a short brief/spec drafted together with Oleksandr using the approach from #016. We close with an honest retro on what worked and what didn't in agentic coding.
What we're building
- Writing a short spec for the agent — and immediately checking how it holds up in practice
- Sign-up / login (simplified)
- User profile
- Post creation
- Feed
- Like
- Stack: React, NestJS, PostgreSQL
- Built dynamically — whatever we get done in 2 hours
Key takeaways
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Timecodes
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Resources
- #016 — Specification as the New Source Code
- Demo project repository — mini X
- BMad Method — documentation
- oh-my-claudecode
- mattpocock/skills
- Markdown Guide — Getting Started
- Build a Twitter clone in 10 minutes with Rails, CableReady, and StimulusReflex (YouTube)
- LinkedIn page
- Telegram community
- Discord server