The author, living in Tel Aviv, wanted to receive an SMS warning when it's going to rain, so they created an IFTTT applet using Vonage's no-code/low-code AI Studio platform. To do this, they first created an IFTTT trigger with Weather Underground, then connected it to an outbound SMS agent in AI Studio, which sends a single SMS with weather forecast details and temperature values. The author shares their experience and provides instructions on how to complete the tutorial, including setting up Vonage API credentials, creating parameters in AI Studio, and connecting IFTTT with webhooks.