This is a wonderful video looking at experiments in how the Gutenberg editor experience can be refined.

It looks like the economy and perhaps other issues are hitting Automattic hard.

It looks like they are releasing new versions of Oxygen and Breakdance at the same time. The big new feature for Oxygen 6.2 is the addition of AI MCP. There were also a number of enhancements and fixes over the course of the release cycle.

Lots of good new features: building with AI, a new selectors system, global CSS variables, new interactions, and performance improvements.

Integration of AI into the software development process has been widely embraced, but the proper workflow has been under debate. Now a consensus is emerging that there should be an executable spec, separate from a prompt, markdown doc, or tests. Perhaps even the AI should not have access to the spec.

The team behind Nexter has created 1,050 ready-made AI prompts (recipes) for their 105 blocks. To quote, “Copy a recipe, paste it into your AI assistant, and it builds a real Nexter block in the editor. The Recipe Library has ten prompts for each of 105 blocks and works with any assistant that supports MCP, like Claude or Cursor.”

Sometimes the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, but in this post Katie Keith from Barn2 shares her research and experience selling a Shopify app.

It looks like the AI MCP is going to be integrated into core. There is some discussion about this.

To quote, “We’ll use it to find and fix vulnerabilities across all our products, from the free version to SEOPress PRO, and to prevent incidents.”