What happens to the CMS when you can just describe the page?

My problem with the CMS starts with AI agents. They make building so easy and fast that many services are going away. One of them is the content management system (CMS), such as Squarespace or WordPress. People used these to build pages, usually through a graphical interface, from blogs to static pages for websites.

Now it's no problem to build code and HTML pages without any additional software, because you can just brief an AI. It will build things for you, or build the tools that serve the pages you need through a few simple services. I have already used a simple CDN service like Cloudflare together with GitHub to put up websites in a very light, easy way.

What's interesting is that you can also build login areas and set up templates with even more flexibility and ease than in Squarespace or WordPress. WordPress has gained a bad reputation for unreliability, and for the constant need to update plugins and security.

I have been a Squarespace user for quite a few years, and still am for now. I'm happy with its reliability and with not having to maintain anything. Even so, I struggle to keep things up to date, because the interface is something you have to get used to. It always involves a lot of manual work.

So my big question is what's going to happen to CMS services in the next year or two. Many clients are still on annual contracts, so they may not cancel straight away. It's also possible that a lot of clients have no idea about AI yet.

In the long run, will we stop using a CMS altogether and simply talk to our agents, who push content online directly? To me, that looks like how it should have worked from the start. Publishing has always been harder than it needed to be. It should always have been as easy as describing your idea and watching it pop up online.

Opinions welcome.

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