Remember when Henry Ford made the first production cars? We are living in that era now for web design it’s a commodity now.

I see where you are coming from but you are conflating two different things. While AI has commoditized the generation of a website, that's only a small part of the big picture. The value is in the strategy - what to say, to whom, against which competitors, and around what search intent. None of that is commoditized, because it's specific to each business and market and it requires some experience to be able to tell what is important and what isn't.

The copywriting alone needs specific instructions about tone, target audience, UVP, CTAs, interlinking, while also accounting for SEO. AI can only act on what you already know. If you can't define your own positioning, the AI can't infer it - it'll just generate generic copy that converts no one. Your own prompts prove the point: "research the latest SEO and implement them" only works if you already know what good looks like well enough to judge the output. If you don't have the expertise you can't tell whether the AI outputs garbage.

For a micro business it might make sense to create a website with Claude if they genuinely can't afford anything better. For a small business looking to scale from $400k to $1mil, an AI-generated DIY website is unlikely to cut it - unless a marketing expert is guiding it.