I let AI fix my website because I was tired of doing it at 2 a.m.

I built Scrabble Cheat the hard way. One HTML page, then another, with no template. Hours turned into days, then nights, moving the same header, the same footer, and the same menu by hand like a monk with a grudge.

AI did not invent the site. It caught the mess I could no longer see.

It finds broken tags, a description that does not match the page, and keywords I typed once and forgot. It adds schema. It reads the title and the meta description and says when they are doing nothing. It checks the HTML so the browser shows the page the way I meant it, instead of the way a missing div meant it.

It told me to redo the images in WebP. The old files were the size of a short novel, and a smaller picture of the same tile is still that tile. It turned the square text boxes into rounded ones, lined the panels up, and put color on them so the page stopped looking like a form from 2004.

I did not have a privacy page. It said so, then wrote one. When I need a new page, I have it copy the header, the footer, and the menu from a page that already works. That is the template I never built.

The other trick is the archive. I add to the front page until the scroll could qualify as a hike. I tell AI to move the block I have been piling onto for months into the archive, leave a link, and clear the space. People can still find the old material. I get a front page I can start fresh on, with a date on the new stuff, instead of one page that bogs down anyone who opens it.

Then it got into the game, which is the part that matters.

The word list sorted by length and by score. That felt finished. AI asked why there was no alphabetical sort. I sat there like I had just been beaten by a two-letter word. Alphabetical. Obvious. I had stared at that list for months and never offered it.

The scoring idea was better. A word is not just the number printed on the tiles. If those letters sit on a double-word square, a triple-word square, or a triple-letter square, the face value is a rumor. Show the play with the board bonus included, so a short word on the triple is obviously worth more than a pretty word in the middle of nowhere. That is the whole sport. I had been handing people a dictionary and calling it strategy. The tool that does this is

Press enter or click to view image in full size

https://scrabblecheat.com. I had created this site in 2006 and it was the first word finder that I knew of. I had created something original. I went to Facebook to brag. They immediately banned me.

The notes for all of that were sitting in my email. I did not have to go hunt them. I told AI to pull the email up, and it opened on the right side of the screen, next to the code I was already editing. Code on the left. The old note on the right. Same screen. I loaded the next email without leaving the page. I said it out loud. This is so cool.

That is the job a law office still pays a person to do by hand. Read the document on one side, type on the other. A 34-inch monitor makes it easy. Two monitors make it easy. One normal monitor is enough if you split the screen and let AI put the source on the right and the work on the left. One side feeds the other.

Speed tests work the same way. GTmetrix, or whatever other score site I am mad at that week. You can copy the text and paste it. I don’t. A big screen capture is faster. Paste the picture in. AI reads the image the way it reads a paste, sometimes cleaner, and it starts listing what to fix. This file is too big. This should load later. This is the line the test is complaining about. I do the fixes that make sense. If I disagree, I skip them. Nothing in there is a requirement. It is a list of options, and half the time the option is something I never would have thought of after staring at the same page all night.

What got me was the pace. I was just talking. One alternative, then another. Not a lecture. A better version of the thing I already built.

AI is staying. I like using it. Companies are going to run theirs against each other until the contest is one huge pile of AI arguing with another huge pile of AI. Fine. Mine already taught me to sort the words, count the triple-word square, and stop digging through email while the code sat on the other half of the screen. I’ll take that.