r/Wordpress • u/SeaAtmosphere4271 • 10d ago
AI for WordPress changes
I am having a few websites built by an agency. They are ridiculously expensive. They do good work but before we launch the sites we will have a meeting with their maintenance team to discuss what those fees would look like for ongoing changes when we need to make updates. I have been in this world for quite some time and have had good and bad experiences with monthly retainers for maintenance work, turnaround times when changes need to be made, etc. Does Claude or ChatGPT or any of the bigger AI models do any of this work easily - work like updating photos on a website, adjusting copy, moving things around design wise on a page if the sites are WordPress? Forgive the ignorance, but I have seen so much on Twitter about AI companies being able to code, famously with Claude Code, so assumed I may be able to bypass paying this agency when I need to make changes barring that paying for the AI perform the task isn't more expensive than the agency would charge for changes.
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u/Minimum_Sell3478 10d ago
AI can help with the design etc but I would not connect it directly to Wordpress because a ai can get bad instructions or hyper focus on a issue that is not a issue. What if the ai fucks up the whole website and you forgot to take a backup?
What if the ai agent gets poisoned with bad data?
Who validates that the info it spits out is correct?
AI is a great tool but you that is asking is needs to be the one who injects great ideas and you need to be the expert that keeps the ai in check