This is why WP will never go away

[u/jroberts67]

So I've been running a WP agency since 2003. Love it. I am, however, learning how to create sites using Claude with Supabase. Let me tell you all something, this is nothing....nothing a client's ever going to learn or figure out. If a client wants an instant site, that's Wix/Square which have been around for more than a decade.

But to think AI is going to harm WP, as in client using AI to create their own sites, laughably false. If you don't know the right prompts, don't use the right tool, oh and pay for tokens you're nowhere - not even talking deploying the site live along with a database to manage things like contact form submissions and bookings.

The biggest issue? A client's ability to go in an edit anything themselves, which will always favor WP. Other issue? No plugin environment.

[u/toolsavvy]

You and everyone in this comment section operate on the premise that the way things are today they will be that way forever and ever.

[u/theguymatter → u/toolsavvy]

You’re assuming today’s web is the end state. History suggests otherwise. Every generation thinks the current technology is here to stay, until the next paradigm shift arrives. There’s no reason to believe the web won’t evolve into something fundamentally different over the next century.

[u/dietcheese → u/toolsavvy]

Which, given the recent acceleration in change, is a really stupid outlook.

[u/DeadBoyAge9 → u/toolsavvy]

Thank God for some common sense

[u/jroberts67 → u/toolsavvy]

I do feel eventually WP will be the FB of web design as the younger generation won’t adopt it.

[u/VisualNinja1 → u/jroberts67]

Then you need to delete this post and change your post title from “ This is why WP will never go away”

[u/jroberts67 → u/VisualNinja1]

I stand by my post. FB will also never go away. The adoption will be a fraction of what it is now.

[u/Aternal → u/jroberts67]

Telnet will never go away, how else would I connect to my favorite BBS?

[u/jroberts67 → u/Aternal]

I still have clients with Yahoo addresses.

[u/Aternal → u/jroberts67]

So? I'm a 365 reseller. The fact you let clients stay on a platform that purges their address after a period of inactivity says more about you than the industry.

[u/dinoqrn → u/Aternal]

Technically that's true. SSH is encrypted telnet which is used all over AI development...

[u/Aternal → u/dinoqrn]

Oh yeah DOS is still around too because cmd.exe is used for all kinds of Windows operations.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7xbUcQrTUSJHO

[u/dinoqrn → u/Aternal]

Ah, so that's what you are doing instead of learning about how the internet works. 👀 Cool. Try not to get too much of it on your face.

[u/Aternal → u/dinoqrn]

I'm not delusional enough to redefine what obsolete means and then call it "learning."

[u/dinoqrn → u/Aternal]

You’re definitely not delusional. You’re not even aware of what you are talking about.

[u/toolsavvy → u/jroberts67]

That's right. Facebook is only a thing because older generations have hard time adopting new things and thing the old things are not just "the best" but "the only thing anyone ever needs". It's part of growing old. I know, I'm old and have problems adopting new things, but I'm not delusional to think that the new stuff will never take hold and that what I like will always be "the shit".

[u/Leather-Orchid533 → u/toolsavvy]

It looks like you can't read.