An AI Built My WordPress Theme. Then I Found the Performance Bugs It Left Behind. (opens in new tab)

I’m what you’d call a “wannabe developer.” My main focus is SEO, but I like trying new things and getting my hands dirty when something breaks. The project was simple enough: a WordPress site dedicated to the 90s classic PC games I keep recommending to people. Instead of hand-coding the theme, I described the layout I wanted, gave an AI the homepage content, and asked it to build a custom theme from scratch. To be fair, it did a decent job. The site launched with a perfect 100/100 on Lighthou...