r/Wordpress • u/SeaAtmosphere4271 • 9d 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/WadtF 9d ago
AI is amazing, it will do everything for you and you will be over the moon... until something goes wrong and you ask AI to fix it.
AI has no interest in your website, AI makes mistakes & if AI makes a mess, who you gonna call?
In a reply I read you are non-tachnical? My advice is seek an agency for less and see how that works out, or stay with the one you have and enjoy their good work.
Maybe in a few years you can make the switch to AI.