A few months ago, someone who runs a front end shop posted an open letter proudly stating their intention to never adopt AI coding, and that their sites, which

A few months ago, someone who runs a front end shop posted an open letter proudly stating their intention to never adopt AI coding, and that their sites, which were excellent, would continue to be handcrafted. I think about them sometimes, wondering if they stuck to their word or not. If people are interested I can try to find the post. I've built websites on the side for friends and SMBs for years now. Previously a lot of WP, but now it's just static sites I host on a VPS which are built with Claude. I think the sites are very good, but they're not winning awards. The newer static sites from Claude are miles better than the WP ones. The stack is usually irrelevant for my clients, they want their site to look good, load immediately, never go down, and show up on Google. One of my more recent projects was for a buddy who runs a local gym. From start to finish it was probably 4h of work. The same site would have taken me probably 40h back in 2018. He was happy with the price and I was thrilled with the timeline, it was wins all around. To bring it it back to your question, I think in the space of modest static sites for SMBs, any agency using AI will almost certainly outcompete ones that aren't. I'm aware this little story is a simplification of the topic you're getting at, but I do think it's a sign of what's to come.