Senior Web Developer
She is a sweet Web designer who challenged herself to learn code and succeed. Despite of coming from an art and design world, she has been always interested in web development and best practices. She quickly learned Drupal and fell in love with the community. Today she is determined to collaborate with the community and help others to get involved.
I doubted AI could understand a real system well enough to make good decisions inside it. Then a three-month emergency migration of a decade-old Drupal and Salesforce setup made me find out. Here is what the AI did, what it did not, and why the technical architect's job got more valuable, not smaller.
We pointed the plugins and skills we built ourselves at our own site, and rebuilt the whole thing, brand and all, in about a week of supervised time. Here is what that was actually like: what the tools did well, where they were confidently wrong, and where a human had to step in. These tools will hand you something that looks finished, and whether it is actually good is a separate question. Holding those two together turned out to be the part we could not hand off.
When AI generates unlimited code, value lies in choosing better over creating more. Why simplicity defines modern web development leadership.
As the Drupal Couple, we attended DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 and want to share our week at the conference. Here's how we experienced the sessions, community moments, and Drupal's future through our different perspectives.
Want to talk Drupal? Find Ana Coto below.
