Dries, the Drupal founder, invested in ActivePieces and in this post talks about what comes after automation.

My father, who is 101, is still writing articles that he shares with friends or in his local newspapers. Recently my sister introduced him to ChatGPT and set him up with an account. She told him to be careful because occasionally AI will make up facts. So, he told me he solved that by asking ChatGPT to verify its facts. He was very happy with his solution and didn’t see the problem with it until I pointed it out. AI assistants are easy to believe. It sounds like they know what they are talking about.

Eric Karkovack discusses this in the context of design and coding. Is AI too smug?

This interview with Aurelio Volle of WP Umbrella is very insightful. He talks about their AppSumo experience, his view of lifetime deals, the philosophy of WP Umbrella, and his company in comparison with other site management options.

Here is an interesting article by Cory Doctorow on the coming AI bubble and why he thinks it is inevitable. Hint, the economics don’t work. Here he is an example of the problem of “the funny accounting in the AI bubble. Microsoft “invests” in Openai by giving the company free access to its servers. Openai reports this as a ten billion dollar investment, then redeems these “tokens” at Microsoft’s data-centers. Microsoft then books this as ten billion in revenue.”

Darrel Wilson has been experimenting with Loveable and suggests that outrageous plugin subscriptions will soon be a thing of the past as we will replace expensive plugins using AI.

Imran Siddiq speaks out about the echo chambers and cliques in WordPress. He suggests that we can improve.

Jamie Marsland suggests that it is time for the WordPress project to shift direction and become something like an open source Lovable.

The author, Jono Alderson, talks about platforms trying to quickly pull in customers, but customers will eventually find these platforms limiting. Of course I can see the flexibility of WordPress, but I don’t agree with the author that all of the messiness of WordPress is a feature.

Wow, the stats are pretty scary. Authority content marketing is on the ropes.