A client’s Slider Revolution installation stopped working after its license expired. The expected path was another paid upgrade to keep using functionality the site already depended on. We asked a different question: could a small custom component provide exactly what the client needed?
AI made the experiment inexpensive
Claude helped accelerate the first implementation. After several hours of prompting, testing, correction, and review, the client had a focused replacement without another plugin renewal.
Less software can be better software
This is not an argument to rebuild every plugin. Mature products can provide enormous value. But when a site depends on a small fraction of an increasingly heavy or expensive product, AI-assisted custom development creates a new option: own the essential behavior and remove the unnecessary dependency.