AI builds your site and deploys it. But who's responsible?
OpenAI Codex Sites builds a website and hosts it automatically — no server to manage, no web developer needed. Sounds great. But who's responsible when something goes wrong?
OpenAI recently launched Codex Sites — a tool that lets you describe what you want and receive a working, hosted website in return. No server to set up, no code to publish, no web developer to call.
It sounds like a revolution. And in some ways, it is.
What Codex Sites actually does
Codex Sites builds web projects and hosts them automatically on Cloudflare's infrastructure. You describe what you want, the tool writes the code and puts it live. It comes with a database, file storage, and settings management built in.
In short: idea → working site, in minutes, without opening a single terminal.
Currently available to ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users in an early preview.
What gets cheaper
Let's be honest: certain work is about to get cheaper. Fast.
Simple landing pages, single-page intro sites, small internal tools — these are tasks clients have been paying hundreds to thousands of euros for. Going forward, they can be put together in an hour without a web developer.
There's no point pretending otherwise. This change is real.
But who's responsible?
This is the question nobody's asking.
An AI tool has no company registration. You can't call it. It doesn't reply to emails. When your site goes down at 11pm, a client's data leaks, or your payment integration stops working — the tool won't help. It just sits there.
A web developer doesn't only sell code. They sell accountability. Someone you can reach. Someone who knows your system, knows what's been changed, and can fix the problem — not just generate more code on top of it.
That difference isn't going away, no matter how capable the tools get.
The security side nobody mentions
AI-generated code now goes live automatically. Someone who can't read code won't spot a problem until it's already running.
Missing authentication, input vulnerabilities, data leaks — these show up in AI-generated code regularly. And when publishing is automatic, those mistakes reach users faster. Nobody reviews it, nobody takes responsibility.
This is where a web developer's value looks different: not writing code, but evaluating it.
What this means for you
If you need a simple presentation site and you're comfortable with the tool provider's terms of service handling accountability — an AI tool is a perfectly reasonable choice.
If you need a system that has to run for years, hold customer data, and have someone genuinely responsible for it — then the question is framed wrong. It's not "AI tool or web developer." The question is: who's accountable when something goes wrong?
Tools and responsibility are two different things. The first gets cheaper every year. The second doesn't.
Kaido Toomingas
WebPro Company OÜ
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