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Visual Edit and AI image generation are now live in Coderick AI

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Mar 19, 2026 3 min read
Coderick AI Visual Edit preview showing click-to-edit text, link settings, and image options to upload or generate an AI image.

If you’ve been building with Coderick AI, you know the drill: describe what you want, and Coderick AI builds it for you. It’s fast, it’s intuitive, and it works. But once your project starts taking shape, not every change needs a full prompt. Sometimes you just want to fix a typo, swap out an image, or adjust a button color – and you want to do it now, not through another round of back-and-forth with the AI.

That’s exactly why we built Visual Edit in Coderick AI.

Click, change, done – that’s Visual Edit

Visual Edit mode button in Coderick AI for editing directly in the project preview.

Visual Edit is a new way to make changes to your Coderick AI projects – directly in the preview, with a click. Instead of going to chat and writing a new prompt every time you want to tweak something small, you can now click on any text, button, image, link, or section and change it on the spot.

Update a headline. Fix a typo. Change a button label. Swap a link. Adjust a color. All of it happens right where you see it, with no prompt needed – and zero credits used.

It’s the kind of editing that feels obvious once you have it – and frustrating to live without once you’ve tried it.  

Generate images with AI, right where you need them

Coderick AI image menu in Visual Edit with options to upload an image or generate an AI image and swap it in place.

Building a project usually means you’ll need images – and until now, that meant leaving Coderick AI, finding or creating an image somewhere else, and uploading it back. With AI image generation in Coderick AI, you can now click on any image in your project, generate a new one with AI, and swap it in on the spot. Review it in context and move on – no extra tools, no context-switching, no manual uploads.

And if you already have the right image for the spot, upload and replace it directly. This action doesn’t need AI and costs you zero credits.

Transform sections or update elements at scale with focused AI edits

Edit with AI in Visual Edit: selecting a section and prompting Coderick AI to rework only the chosen element in the preview.

Some changes go beyond a quick text swap but don’t need a full project prompt either. Maybe your pricing section needs a completely different layout. Or the navigation bar of your site needs a different design direction. These aren’t small tweaks, but they’re not “build me a new page” territory either.

That’s what focused AI edits in the Visual Edit are for. From Visual Edit, select a section or an element, and click Edit with AI. The Coderick AI chat locks onto your selected element – describe what you want changed, and the AI reworks just that part. The rest of your project stays exactly as it is.

The difference from the main Coderick AI chat is simple: the chat is for full-project work like adding new pages or making structural changes. Focused AI edits are for when you already know what needs to change and you just need the AI to do it, precisely, in that one spot or section. Shorter prompts, no unintended side effects, better results.

Save credits for the work that matters

Not every edit needs AI, and now, not every edit costs credits. Quick edits through Visual Edit use zero credits. Your balance stays untouched for the work that actually needs AI – generating new sections, reworking layouts, or creating images. And when you do use Edit with AI, it targets only the section you select, so you get more precise results with fewer credits per edit.

Here’s how credits work:

What you’re doing How Credits
Edit text, buttons, links, colors Visual Edit (direct click) Zero
Swap or upload your own images Visual Edit (direct click) Zero
Generate an image with AI AI image generation Uses credits
Rework a specific section Edit with AI Uses credits (section-level, not full project)
Build something new from scratch Chat prompt Uses credits

How to use Visual Edit?

Getting started takes seconds:

  1. Open any project in Coderick AI.
  2. Click the Visual Edit button to switch from the chat-based builder to the visual editor (preview editing).
  3. Click on any element in your project preview – text, buttons, images, links – and edit it directly.
  4. To generate an image, click on an existing image and use the AI image generation option.
  5. For bigger changes, select a section and choose Edit with AI to rework it with a targeted prompt.

When you’re done, click Save to keep your changes, or Exit to discard them.

Ready to try it?

Coderick AI was built to get your vibe coding from idea to live project as fast as possible. But speed isn’t just about the first build – it’s about everything that comes after. The tweaks, the refinements, the “can you just change that one thing” moments that add up.

Visual Edit makes those moments faster and cheaper. Quick edits cost zero credits. Bigger changes are more targeted. And AI image generation means one less reason to leave your project or your workflow.

Visual Edit and AI image generation are now available in all Coderick AI projects. Open a project, switch to Visual Edit, and see how it feels to click, change, and keep building.

START BUILDING WITH CODERICK AI →

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Author: Dimitar Ganev

Content Marketing Manager for AI Products

Dimitar manages content for AI products, bringing along a past life as a journalist in the City of London and a healthy obsession with philosophy — which he's studied in Vienna, London and Edinburgh, and is still not done with, currently pursuing a PhD at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Somehow he also found time to publish two poetry books, proving that marketers can, in fact, have a soul. Outside of work, he's usually reading, visiting art exhibitions, travelling, or pretending he's getting better at guitar.

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Comments ( 2 )

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Roman

Mar 27, 2026

I wish SiteGround would focus on sharing a roadmap for critical features that CodeRick currently lacks, but which are essential for production-ready web apps. These include SSO, a Payment Gateway (even within the SiteGround eShop platform), 2FA security, push notifications, and an AI-based chatbot for customer support. Furthermore, we need 3rd-party API support, SMTP email support, and automated deployment of CodeRick apps to existing domains/websites hosted on SiteGround (preserving existing email accounts). Other necessities include automated credit chargebacks for poor code generation, ability for CodeRick to maintain multi-language sites without constant reprompting. These are far more important than AI image generation or content management, which can already be handled via the backend. The absence of these features is preventing apps from going live; currently, the tool feels more like a semi-MVP than a production-ready solution. Without a public roadmap, committed dates, frequent product updates, and a system for customer feedback, CodeRick risks falling short. Please open a feature voting system for your users and offer beta testing for new features. Show us what SiteGround is working on and give users a reason to stick around and continue using this great tool.

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Georgi Chavdarov Siteground Team

Mar 31, 2026

We are focusing on making the tool more reliable for live apps, with frequent updates and improvements based on user input like yours. We do not have a fully public roadmap with exact dates yet (as we prefer to ship features when they’re solid rather than promise timelines), but we hear you loud and clear on wanting more transparency and a feature voting system. We will take this back to the product team. In the meantime, if you’d like to discuss your specific project needs, feel free to reach out to our team via the Help Center of the Client Area

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