Why healthy doubt beats AI confidence theater
AI will confidently sign off on anything. The question is whether you will too.
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Building an Autonomous Feedback Agent
What if your users could submit a bug report and have a pull request ready for review before you’ve even seen the ticket? That’s what we built for Rondo Club, a
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Great minds think alike? My WordPress take on Markdown for Agents
Today, Cloudflare announced Markdown for Agents, a feature that automatically converts HTML to markdown at the edge when AI agents request it. Reading their ann
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The silence is deafening: Google’s “agentic” future leaves the WordPress economy behind
Google just announced a massive shift in how the internet shops, and the biggest platform on the web wasn’t even in the room.
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The Tailwind paradox: the high price of “enough”
The news hit the developer community like a cold bucket of water. Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, recently announced that he had to lay off 75% of his
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From installation to integration: Making plugins “agent-ready”
In my last post, I discussed why a design system is the “visual rail” AI needs. But the “Architect” I’ve been describing doesn’t just care about how a site look
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Vibe coding is a trap: why WordPress needs a design system NOW
In my last post, I argued that WordPress needs to become a “Base AI”: a structured foundation that AI can understand and build upon. Before that, I wrote about
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The generalization tax: why WordPress is still the smart architectural base
In my previous post, I discussed the demise of code copyright and mentioned what Dries referred to as the generalization tax. This had me thinking more about wh
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The death of Code Copyright (and the rise of the Architect)
We are witnessing a strange paradox in software development. Thanks to AI code generation, more open source code is being created today than ever before. Yet, s
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A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web
In December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of transparen
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Innovation in WordPress: a look at plugin development
Recent observations have highlighted a significant surge in new plugin submissions to the WordPress repository, as noted in this post. We also know that Automat
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The unintended consequences of making SEO “for everyone”
At Yoast, we had one mission: make SEO easier. For a long time, SEO for everyone was Yoast’s tagline, and we meant it. We helped millions of people optimize the
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