AI does a lot of the typing now. What hasn't changed is who's responsible for what ships.
AI does a lot of the actual typing now, and I'm upfront about that with clients rather than quiet about it. Ask it for a component, a layout, a first pass at some copy, and it'll hand you something in seconds that used to take an hour. That part's genuinely great — no point pretending otherwise.
But speed isn't the same as correctness, and AI is confident whether it's right or not. It'll wrap a card in scaffolding it doesn't need. It'll guess at a pattern that almost fits instead of asking what your site actually needs. It'll happily generate something that looks finished and would quietly cause a problem eight months from now. None of that shows up on day one — it shows up during the first redesign, when someone has to actually understand what's there.
So the discipline hasn't changed, even though the tool has. Before anything ships, I check it against what it's actually supposed to do — not just whether it looks right, but whether it holds up: does the page work the way it's meant to, does the wording say what I mean, does anything feel off once it's real instead of a draft. If something's wrong, it goes back until it isn't — that's true whether I typed it or AI did. The site still has to hold up two years from now, when something needs to change and whoever's touching it needs the structure to actually make sense.
What I won't do is pretend the speed isn't there, or pretend it happened without me. What I will do is stay the person who decides what's good enough to go out, regardless of who — or what — typed it first.
AI can generate a paragraph in seconds. It can't tell you whether it's the right paragraph. That part's still mine.
First drafts, boilerplate, a component I'd otherwise type out by hand — AI gets there fast, and I use it for exactly that. It's not good at knowing what your specific site needs instead of a generic guess.
Every AI-generated page gets checked against what it's supposed to do before it ships — does it say the right thing, does it work the way it should, does it hold up. The value I add isn't typing speed — it's knowing which parts are actually right for your site and which just look plausible.
Unreviewed AI output holds up right until someone needs to change it and the structure doesn't make sense. That's usually where "just this once" turns into a rebuild.
Tell me about your business and what you need your site to do.