# Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing

DevFeed: [Why Your Website Should Never Stop Changing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-your-website-should-never-stop-changing-4327.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://smashingmagazine.com/2026/08/why-website-should-never-stop-changing/>)

Author: hello@smashingmagazine.com (Pierre Burgy)

Published: 2026-08-25T08:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Articles on Smashing Magazine -- For Web Designers And Developers](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/articles-on-smashing-magazine-for-web-designers-and-developers.md>)

Topics: [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [User interface design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui-design.md>)

Tags: [accessibility](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/accessibility.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [autonomous](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autonomous.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

The article argues that websites should keep improving after launch through agent-assisted maintenance, while questioning full autonomy as the right goal.

## Source excerpt

Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way.