I Vibe Coded a WordPress Plugin and Shipped it to Production
A developer with no recent PHP experience used ChatGPT and Claude to generate a WordPress Gutenberg block plugin for cited quotes. ChatGPT's free version produced buggy code after multiple iterations, while Claude Sonnet 4.5 delivered working code in one prompt. The author successfully deployed the AI-generated plugin to production, reflecting on implications for software development when non-programmers can create personalized tools using LLMs instead of relying on feature-bloated existing plugins.