The thing got built. That is the good news.
The bad news is that a whole day disappeared into a customer service chat where an agent did the wrong thing, killed a client website, killed their emails, and left me chasing DNS propagation for hours while the client wondered why their business had gone dark.
DNS propagating. Two words. The worst two words in IT.
What actually happened
A routine support ticket. A simple config change. The agent misread the request, applied the wrong setting, and propagated the mistake across multiple DNS zones before I could stop it.
The website went down. The email stopped. The client called.
I spent the rest of the day undoing what should never have been done in the first place, refreshing DNS checker tools every three minutes, explaining to the client why their business was offline, and trying not to say the things I was thinking to the LLMs in the support chat that kept offering solutions that would have made it worse.
The amateur web designer fantasy
Here is what the AI-powered amateur web designer probably has not experienced yet: the part where a single dipshit decision by someone with admin access hijacks an entire day, and you become tech support for a problem you did not cause, explaining propagation delays to a client who just wants their business back online.
The tools are democratising web design. They are not democratising the consequences of getting it wrong.
A contact form that does not work is annoying. A DNS misconfiguration that takes a business offline for six hours is a liability.
AI is not coming for your jobs. People using AI are. And for many of those jobs — the ones that involve cleaning up after other people's mistakes at 9pm on a Tuesday — good. You can have them.
Day 19 of 30. 11 days to go.
The build happened. It is not polished. It might get published tonight, or tomorrow, or not at all, depending on how tonight's sleep goes.
If anyone wants to comment that I failed the challenge, got disqualified, or am being lazy, I need an excuse to release the raccoon.