It all started when someone recently asked me if I could embed their Claude-generated survey into a website. This wasn’t a straight survey, but rather, a decision tree type of questionnaire.

Problem was, the link given to me was essentially an iframe, making implementation a little tricky. Not to mention the questionable security and best practice fouls that would come from nested iframes in a page.

Vibe Coding

While thinking through possible solutions (suitable plugins were sparse), I wondered about creating a plugin for this. That is when Telex popped into mind.

When a friend had asked me if I’d tried any vibe coding projects yet, I replied that I haven’t really had any applications or use cases where I needed AI to find a solution. Now I did.

To be honest, I’ve kept generative AI at arms length, while closely monitoring and following the rapid progress of the agentic web. In practice, the only AI tools I’ve used are Proton’s Lumo and Brave’s Leo. But that is just for augmented search and compilation.

This would be my first interactions with AI to do something. To create a solution for a problem.

Telex

I’ve known about Telex since its launch and played a bit with some of the showcase plugins. But again, I was approaching this exercise totally green.

Why Telex? I suppose I could’ve gone to Claude, OpenClaw, or another tool for answers. But since I was trying to solve a WordPress problem, it seemed more natural to utilize a tool that is specifically designed to integrate with WordPress.

Besides, who knows what other WordPress sites might benefit from such a plugin. Make it reusable.

The Process

I’m breaking this post up into two parts. This is the intro. The build process will be covered in my next post. It’s not at all technical.

And in case you’re wondering, yes – the plugin, The Socratic Diagnostic, is available for download and demo. More on that in the next post.