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Using AI for content and code, and getting real leverage from it in day-to-day WordPress work — including where it should not be trusted.
18 articles· Working with AI
Working with AI Advanced
Generated code usually looks idiomatic. The trouble is that it can look idiomatic while omitting precisely the escaping, the prepared statement, the capability check or the path validation…
Working with AI Advanced
Every session starts blank, but a project's decisions and incident history must not. Collect conventions, reasoning, traps already hit and regression checks in one document, and the same…
Working with AI Practical
Missing escaping and missing capability checks are caught reliably. What has to be executed to be known — runtime behaviour, hook ordering across plugins, whether the change matches…
Working with AI Practical
The same question gives wildly different answers, and the variable is usually not the model but what you handed over. Supply your conventions, your version constraints and the…
Working with AI Advanced
Summarising structure across several articles and spotting coverage gaps is genuinely useful work for AI. Every factual claim about a competitor, though, must be checked by opening the…
Working with AI Practical
Search engines rank helpfulness, not authorship. Mass-produced thin content fails because it is thin — not because a machine wrote it.
Working with AI Practical
The part of a brief AI can write is the structure and the questions to answer. Your data, your examples and your point of view must be left…
Working with AI Practical
Sorting a few hundred raw keywords into intent groups is something AI does quickly and consistently. What it cannot know is which group your business can credibly win…
Working with AI Intro
A generated alt text describes the picture. A correct one describes the information that picture carries in this context. Those are often not the same thing.
Working with AI Advanced
Keep illustrations as code rather than image files and a rebrand has nothing to re-export. One rule holds the whole structure up: no colours inside the SVG.
Working with AI Practical
Ask "what do you think of this design" and you get compliments. Useful answers appear once you fill in four boxes: context, audience, criteria and format.
Working with AI Practical
AI is quick at structure and phrasing. Facts, measurements and lived experience have to come from you — and turning that boundary into a procedure buys speed without…