Just to be upfront, I'm on the Squarespace team, so take that into context.
I spent a while trying to build a site with AI tools from scratch, mostly to see how far they'd get without a traditional builder underneath.
The first-draft part was solid. AI handled rough copy, gave me section ideas, got a basic layout down. Blank page to something usable much faster than doing it by hand.
It fell apart after that. Page structure needed real work, the heading hierarchy was a mess, some of the copy could've been for anyone's site, and SEO still needed a proper pass. The last stretch ate most of the time, fixing spacing, mobile behavior, metadata and links the AI didn't understand.
Where I landed is that I'd rather have AI as a starting point inside something that already handles the rest than stitch five separate tools together and then work out which one broke. That's a preference, not a rule, and plenty of people happily run the stitched-together setup.
I still think AI is useful for getting unstuck. I just wouldn't treat the first generated version as done.
Where did everyone else land, fully AI-built, traditional builder, or a mix?
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