
Are CMSes becoming pointless now that AI can just code websites? I built one anyway — here's my reasoning.
I've been seeing the "just let AI code it" sentiment a lot lately, and honestly, it crossed my mind too. AI is getting scary good at generating full pages. So why would anyone use a CMS? Here's where I landed after thinking about it for months (and building something to test the idea): The problem with "just let AI code it" : You get a page, sure. But then you want to change the font, restructure a section, translate it, deploy it somewhere else. You're back to prompting, re-generating, copy-pasting, merging. Every change is a full round-trip through the AI. It's like having a brilliant architect who redraws the entire blueprint every time you want to move a door. Now, I'll be honest : this problem is shrinking fast. When I started building in November, agentic AI was clunky — you'd lose context, get inconsistent outputs, waste tokens on back-and-forth. Today, with models like Claude Opus, the "just let it code everything" approach is genuinely viable for more and more cases. The archi
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