AI Can Build Your Website in 30 Seconds, but Business Logic Takes Months

Website builders have mastered AI-generated sites from a single text prompt, but an industry insider argues this capability is no longer a meaningful differentiator. The real challenge lies in configuring the business logic that underlies a functional site — things like availability rules, pricing tiers, deposit policies, and turnaround buffers. Unlike visual errors caught instantly, misconfigured business rules are invisible until they cause real-world failures, such as double-booking a rental van. LLMs excel at generating output judged by plausibility, but struggle with correctness against rules that never appear in the visible output. The author warns that competing on generation speed alone ignores where the genuine difficulty — and the business risk — has actually moved.