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.”

This is a cool use of AI. The WP World has added a multi-language chat where you can chat using your own language and it translates in real time.

Roger Montti discusses the LLM.txt misinformation loop that some SEO plugins are promoting.

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.

Here is a short tutorial on how to setup Claude Code for creating a WordPress plugin.

Really Simple Licensing is a way to setup content licensing during the age of AI and web crawlers. A number of big names are supporting it and WordPress now has a prototype plugin to enable it. This, of course, assumes that AI crawlers will respect it.

Matt Mullenweg has shared the program for WCUS related to AI. They are going all in.

This tutorial shows how to create a directory website using Lovable and Bolt along with Crocoblock JetEngine and JetFormBuilder. It includes some architectural tips to make working with the AI easier.