Well here I am anyway

What changed? Part of the barrier to gettting this back rolling was that I wanted to reboot my old wordpress site but getting the content out of the old site into something new was a giant pain since the old site wasn't running anymore. And the big change is that AI made it really easy for me to export all that data (although I still have work to do to clean it up) and build a brand new custom site around it.

AI Just Changed Everything About How I Build Software

I rebuilt my entire blog from scratch last week. Not because I had to—because suddenly, I could.

For years, my old WordPress site sat dormant. The thought of migrating content from a dead database, wrestling with exports, and building something new felt overwhelming. So I did what most of us do: nothing.

Then I started using Claude Code for other projects, and something clicked. What if the painful parts of software development weren't painful anymore?

The experiment was simple: Could AI help me extract my old content and build a completely custom blog in less time than it would take to set up another WordPress instance?

The answer changed how I think about software.

Not only did Claude help me export years of posts from my defunct site, but we built a custom platform tailored exactly to my needs. Want a specialized editor? Done. Need a unique feature WordPress doesn't offer? Just ask.

This represents a fundamental shift. We're witnessing the return of custom software—not because we're all suddenly better programmers, but because the barriers have collapsed.

Think about it: We moved to platforms like WordPress because building features ourselves was too expensive in time and complexity. The trade-off was accepting their constraints in exchange for "free" functionality.

But what happens when custom development becomes as fast as configuration? When you can describe what you want and have working code in minutes?

We're about to find out. And I'm building my answer, one feature at a time.