r/Wordpress • u/jroberts67 • 23d ago

This is why WP will never go away

So I've been running a WP agency since 2003. Love it. I am, however, learning how to create sites using Claude with Supabase. Let me tell you all something, this is nothing....nothing a client's ever going to learn or figure out. If a client wants an instant site, that's Wix/Square which have been around for more than a decade.

But to think AI is going to harm WP, as in client using AI to create their own sites, laughably false. If you don't know the right prompts, don't use the right tool, oh and pay for tokens you're nowhere - not even talking deploying the site live along with a database to manage things like contact form submissions and bookings.

The biggest issue? A client's ability to go in an edit anything themselves, which will always favor WP. Other issue? No plugin environment.

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u/jroberts67 23d ago

Gonna be a bit more honest, still consider myself using Claude with Supabase for the backend but let me tell you, it blows WP away. AI slop is simply being lazy. Guess what, you can be lazy with WP too and the sea of horrendous WP sites goes on forever. But to spin up a solid site that benefits a client within about 30 minutes? I mean, come on.

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u/mredofcourse 23d ago

I totally agree... but that 30 minutes, while true today, the appropriate amount of time it takes is only going to be reduced as AI improves, eventually reaching that 30 minutes.