Three client theme builds this quarter started as prompts, not PSDs. The drafts were 70% of the way there in an hour. The interesting part is which 30% never survived.
What survived code review
Structure, tokens, and the boring parts: template hierarchy, enqueue logic, accessibility scaffolding. The model is genuinely good at the parts developers rush.
What got rewritten
Anything with taste: spacing rhythm, type scale, hover behavior. And anything touching the client’s actual data model — the model confidently invents custom fields that don’t exist.
The workflow that stuck
Prompt for the skeleton, hand-finish the design layer, and never let generated code merge without reading every line. Same rule as junior PRs, faster turnaround.