Carlos Ospina and Ana Coto Detail AI-Assisted Drupal Site Rebuild

Rebuilding adrupalcouple.us with supervised AI tools took about a week in June 2026, according to a case-study account published on 29 June 2026 by Carlos Ospina, technical account manager and Drupal advisor, and Ana Coto, senior web developer. The authors said the work represented roughly four days of actual effort, with tools running while they watched, corrected, and made final decisions. They used their own plugins, dev-guides, and agentic recipes to rebuild the site’s brand, design system, and Drupal implementation.

The value of the account is its focus on where AI-generated work looked complete but failed at implementation. Carlos and Ana say the tools created a footer that matched the reference visually but used a custom PHP block instead of native Drupal menu handling, leaving editor copy trapped in code. They also describe Composer actions in the wrong order, invented content patterns, inaccurate newsletter claims, and visual comparison agents that overstated differences.

The account frames the rebuild as human-in-the-loop work rather than AI automation. The authors say review included accessibility checks such as fixing low-contrast text, supporting user contrast and motion preferences, and publishing an accessibility statement only for verified work. Their conclusion is that AI can reduce site-building time when guided by current Drupal knowledge, but it still requires human judgement for architecture, accessibility, brand decisions, and editorial truth.