If AI Existed in 2011, Would We Still Have the Modern Web?

Imagine it’s 2011. The web is mostly server-rendered PHP templates, maybe a bit of jQuery if you’re feeling fancy, or sometimes no JavaScript at all. Interactivity is limited, everything is a request-response loop, and the idea of complex client-side apps isn’t really mainstream yet. It works, it’s predictable, and honestly… nobody is panicking 😄 Now imagine that into this world, suddenly, we drop modern AI. Not some early experimental models, but something close to what we have today — LLMs, c