How a Non-Developer Built a 95,000-Line WordPress Codebase with AI

`I don't know PHP. I've never opened a computer science textbook. I can't read most of the code running my own site. The site has 95,510 lines of custom code across 129 files. A custom WordPress theme at 84,272 lines. Two plugins at 8,000 lines. An analytics dashboard at 3,238 lines. No page builder. No Yoast. No RankMath. No parent theme. Every line was written through conversation with Claude. This is not a tutorial. This is a post-mortem of what happens when a non-developer builds a productio