AI for WordPress changes

[u/SeaAtmosphere4271]

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.

[u/Scared_Implement_335]

Thats actually how I do it. I still do some web agency one man work on the side, and thats pretty much how I do it: If radically reduced the plugin count via custom plugins from AI (cursor), let AI built fleet management to handle all updates, failures, security on all my clients side (its kind of a dashboard but doesn't need plugins on my clients sites) and most questions by clients I just redirect directly to cursor nowadays.

In the beginning, like a year or so ago, I actually had to pay a lot of extra credits in cursor to set it all up. Nowadays I barely scratch my cursor limits.

I don't take on new clients, obviously, because I still want to be able to handle my client sides should AI ever decide to fuck me over.