What AI can and cannot do in a web project in 2026
Four things it does genuinely well, four it is still bad at, and why the project has not got shorter even though the build has.
Notes on the work: what we build, how it is put together, and what we would do differently.
Four things it does genuinely well, four it is still bad at, and why the project has not got shorter even though the build has.
Shopify sells you a shop. WooCommerce lets you build one. Neither is better: they fail in different directions, and which one suits you follows from that.
Images, plugins, hosting and caching, in that order. How to find which one is costing you, and the two popular fixes that are mostly a waste of time.
Both build a website. They leave you in very different places six months later. An honest account of what each one trades away, from a studio that uses both.
Nobody will give you one number, and they are right not to. Here is what actually moves the price, the four kinds of project, and how to compare two quotes that look nothing alike.
One question decides it: can people do the thing they came to do? If yes, you need a redesign. If no, new paint will waste your money twice.
Social platforms rent you an audience and AI assistants answer from websites. If you have no site to read, you are not absent from the ranking. You are absent from the sentence.