My appearance on WP Product Talk Episode 0156
I joined Katie Keith and Zach Katz to chat about AI and WordPress on WP Product Talk.
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My appearance on the Leaky Paywall Podcast
Listen or watch Pete and I discuss subscription price increases and AI.
Jeremy Keith on open local large language models
Jeremy Keith: I’d love to see the technology decoupled from the current depressing narrative. I’d love to see a thousand homemade software flowers bloom from open local language models. Me too. At…
2025 Impact Report for NerdPress
Miranda Wicker shares NerdPress' 2025 Impact Report as a Certified B-Corporation: What does it mean when a company says it believes business can be a force for good? Especially in the tech…
Christoph Rauscher on agency
Christoph Rauscher, in a post about his 6th year running a weeklong workshop called Writing = Design (which sounds lovely): It was so peaceful, this one week of human writing. We developed…
Will the AI sprint end?
Merlin Rebrović: … I’m using AI to design AI-powered tools and I work with some people who are AI-pilled. When I get home, I read and listen to AI maximalists and billionaires’…
Models, models everywhere
Models. Big huge scary models. Small, purpose-built models. Slow models. Fast models. Expensive models. Local models. Models. Models. Models. Which model should you pick for your question, task, or goal? How much…
Pruning again with Tracy Durnell
Tracy Durnell is shaking things up: I’ve done a purge of my feed reader (down to 80 feeds lol). Rather than defaulting to my phone, I’m recommitting to books as my after-lunch…
Our appearance on The Simple Pin Media Podcast #462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFI_HGYvAPA Andrew Wilder, CEO of NerdPress, and I were on The Simple Pin Media Podcast Episode #462 with host Kate Ahl. The bulk of the episode walks through 3 core features of…
First slowly, then all at once… the agentweb
Every app, website, SaaS product, cloud service, hosting platform, protocol, database, file system, and CLI is being rewritten for agents. What is an agent? An agent is an app that receives prompts,…
Takuya Matsuyama on avoiding burnout in the AI era
Takuya Matsuyama, developer of InkDrop, who I’ve been following for a few years wrote about maintaining mental health in the AI era for software developers. He also walked through Japan, enjoying the…
John O’Nolan on Ghost’s CLI
John O'Nolan added a new CLI to Ghost called ghst: We've spent 10+ years focusing on having a clean, well designed interface for Ghost. It's something we care a lot about, and…
Jim Neilsen on LLM instructions
Great point from Jim Neilsen re: the instructions found deep inside a model or agent's instructions, which we may not prefer yet live with if we don't know to override them: It’s…
John O’Nolan on the changing landscape of software
John O'Nolan, founder of Ghost: Open source was built upon the idea that anyone should be able to study, modify, replicate and share software. Free from the grasp of corporations and copyrights…
Gus Mueller on agentic coding
Gus Mueller, in response to the aforelinked Knauss post: […] what is going to make Acorn stand out? I’m starting to think that’s going to be personality and feel and polish, but…
Greg Knauss on the emotional toll of agentic coding
Greg Knauss: Is the code any good? I don’t know. Who cares? Nobody looks at it anyway. AI produces a result, and results are what matter, and if you’re waiting for quality…
Nikunj Kothari on “Token Anxiety”
Nikunj Kothari on the anxiety created by agentic workflows: The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month’s workflow feel prehistoric. Codex…
Selling software will still be the hard part
While reading Craig Mod's post recalling the seventh year of his Special Projects membership (all of his yearly updates are worth reading and gleaning from) I noticed a link to Roden 102….
Maggie Appleton on the state of AI Agents
Maggie Appleton, in a post titled simply January 2026: You might suggest that I spend less time on X, but I’m not inclined to look away just as the train gets up…
Chris Glass: “Alright, that’s enough of that”
Chris Glass, on his cat blog: I’ve turned off comments and other minor features to improve site performance here because I think AI bots are hogging things. The scourge of internet traffic…
Taranis: “LLMs are a failure”
Anon Taranis writes that LLMs are, in large part, a failure and that all AI companies have hit a wall that they'll never surmount. I believe it is always good to read…
Manuel Moreale: “the web is alive”
Manuel Moreale, encouraging us all to follow all the links in his seminal series People & Blogs… This series lives on my blog but has nothing to do with me. It exists…
Simon Willison on creating new programming languages with AI
Simon Willison comments on creating new programming languages with AI: My hunch is that existing LLMs make it easier to build a new programming language in a way that captures new developers….
Hesitant thoughts on LLMs
I've wanted to write a follow-up to my April 2023 post How I'm using ChatGPT as an accelerator for several months. I want to share how I'm using AI today, what I…
WWDC 2025 wish list
I’m going to keep this simple so that I actually end up publishing this prior to WWDC. Here is my list of wishes for this year across Apple’s operating systems. Add a…
The vibe coding litmus test
Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison's explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it…
Diversions #9: The garlic of March
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth's tilt is such that as…
Gus Mueller on Apple and AI
Gus Mueller argues that Apple needs to support developers running LLMs locally on the Mac, rather than simply try to catch up on their own. There isn't one specific quote that I…
What software should be
It used to be, that I was the first person in line to download new software. I'd sign up for beta access, email developers for early looks at what they were working…
Simon Willison: Use AI as an accelerant
Simon Willison, from a clip I created of an episode of Around the Prompt: I love AI as an accelerant of personal productivity improvement. I plan on writing an update to my…