I've been using ai coding tools in the last few months with static site generators. This is hugely empowering and completely obsoletes most CMS systems. Especially for more complex publication workflows.
I'm using hugo, not jekyll. But I don't think it matters which site generator you pick. The key point is using something that is code driven. And then have AI drive the code changes. Basically all routine site maintenance and updates is now controlled via agentic coding.
We use guard rails and skills to impose structure and process. This includes tone checks (and fixing), making sure audio transcriptions are in sync with articles, ensuring everything is tagged correctly, dealing with translations and approved lists of translations of key phrases, SEO checks and much more. I've been dialing in a lot of this in steps. You can start without most of this. But essentially a lot of manual work melts away when you get a bit structured on this. Like the article, we also use vector search embeddings. Our search actually uses the same model and runs it in the browser via web GPU. I also use it for related articles.
Also we've been experimenting with using reveal.js for presentations. Same principle. Forget things like Keynote, Canva, etc. Reveal.js is meant for programmers. But if you replace those with agents, non technical people can prompt together some really amazing decks. Replacing applications and UIs with code driven systems removes the need for those applications and UIs. And using AI to drive those code based systems removes the need for having developers in the loop. Our non programmer CEO who was a heavy Canva user is now doing decks and huge website updates this way now. Pretty scary actually. I don't think he'll use Canva again. I'm barely involved beyond setting up some basic plumbing. One party trick he likes is adapting decks to customers by integrating their house colors and visuals. Only takes pointing the AI at their website.
https://querylight.tryformation.com/ is a hugo demo site for the search capabilities. It hosts the documentation for the vector (and lexical) search library I use on our websites. The entire documentation site is managed as I describe above.