Yesterday, I set up a clean Laravel project, then from ChatGPT Codex in VSCode, I started telling it what I wanted. From a newbie approach, Blog, Gallery, Home page, About page and so on. I wrote not one line of code, even asking it to make things like colour changes that were right in front of me, and I could have done it quicker. I spent about 3 hours on this. And yeah, pretty much wow. It got to the stage where I was confident it was going well enough to move from a very standard blog approach to far more complex options.

The outcome was a site that would have taken me weeks in just 3 hours of telling AI what to do.

Did it write code the way I would? No, maybe it did it better in places. Am I about to let AI write code on my existing project? Hell, no, mixing me and AI is not an option.

I am fortunate, I learnt PHP way back with Jeffrey Way on Tuts+, long before AI. I am no pro coder like many of you; I am just a guy who had frustrations with off-the-shelf products like WordPress and wanted a bespoke solution to meet my needs. But for people like me today who are looking to do the same thing I did years ago, AI is great. That is for Personal, non-commercial sites. Not that it's going to manage your hosting/server needs (I think), or various other requirements, but so far, I think it's great for some. Not all.

My personal view? I suspect that the future of coding is going to be speed and functionality over individuality. And I am seeing that already.