A 20-year WordPress veteran pushes back against the growing narrative that AI tools make CMSes obsolete. The author argues that migrating entire sites from WordPress or Drupal to AI-generated JavaScript frameworks introduces familiar problems — dependency hell, JavaScript framework churn, and vendor lock-in — while removing the human-friendly editing interfaces that non-technical users depend on. Drawing on a month-long personal project rebuilding his own site as a headless Next.js front-end on top of WordPress, he concludes that AI can enhance a CMS (via MCP, REST API, etc.) rather than replace it. He also highlights Cloudflare's EmDash as evidence that even new entrants are building CMSes, not abandoning the concept. The core argument: the 'right tool for the job' principle hasn't changed, and agencies pitching AI-powered CMS migrations are often creating vendor lock-in dressed up in AI hype.
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