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AI is sending me website rescue jobs
A weird part of my job now: fixing websites people built with AI that should never have been built.
▶Play the video: AI is sending me website rescue jobsMy job’s getting a bit weird. I’m spending more time fixing other people’s messes.
Multiple people have now come to me with websites they built themselves in ChatGPT or Claude. “My contact form isn’t working. Can you help me fix it?” I open the site up and the whole chain of prompts is still in there, with the answers explaining exactly how to fix the contact form. In plain English.
They can’t use it. They don’t know how a contact form works underneath. They don’t know what Postmark is, or a GET or POST request. Plain English instructions don’t help if you can’t turn them into the technical fix.
So part of my job now is fixing things people built that they should never have built in the first place. It’s weird. It’s also quite interesting. If that’s you, read how to fix an AI-generated website.
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My job is becoming a little bit weird, though. I'm spending more time fixing other people's messes. I've had multiple people come to me now who have built their own websites on either ChatGPT or Claude and said, "Uh my contact form is not working. Can you help me fix the contact form?" And then when I go in there and look at the site, there's this whole chain of prompts in there and whole chain of answers explaining exactly how to fix the contact form. The problem is these people who were building these websites who then come to me have no idea what contact form is or the underlying technology of how they work.
They have no idea what Postmark is or get or post requests or any of these things. So, even though the answers are in plain English being told to them, they have no idea how to interpret those answers technically to go fix it. One portion of my job is fixing these things that other people have built that they should never have built in the first place, which is a weird interesting part.