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 Lighthouse for both mobile and desktop. Clean HTML, fast load, no obvious mess.
Then I made a few small content edits to the homepage, re-ran the test, and the mobile score dropped to 89. Desktop stayed at a clean 100.
This is not a deep performance war story. The fix was a single image attribute. But the reason that attribute ended up in the wrong place says a lot about why AI-generated code still needs a human code review.
