Agree. And the meta point, after reading through to the core committer channel on the WP slack is that it's clear he's now more involved in the project again and making decisions. I haven't been involved for years, but while I was it seems he had other priorities (understandable).
But the rapid changes from AI are an existential threat to the long-term viability of WP. Rather than bike shedding about something relatively trivial, they need to focus on the bigger issues, which it's apparent he's trying to do.
Interestingly, the culture that sustained WP over the last 2 decades may now be working against it. Culture is really hard to change, but he now seems to have his 'wartime CEO' hat on trying to do it, which is the right move.
I didn't want to hassle with migrating my WordPress blog, so now just deploy it to Github > Cloudflare Pages so it's served statically (fast + secure). It's free too, wrote a blog post on it a couple years back: https://gmays.com/how-to-host-wordpress-sites-free/
But these days any new site I build is on NextJS since coding agents make it a breeze.
Good point, it's a mix. The "it'll only get harder" is also because things are moving so fast and it takes time to learn (especially across teams) and change habits. No past paradigm has moved this quickly, which makes it hard to grok.
I also fully agree with "don’t overdo your investment into this generation of tools". IMO there are too many "cutting edge" tools trying to do all of this sexy stuff that'll be irrelevant in the next few months.
It's best to keep things simple with tooling. I push the edge on my general approach (99% of everything is AI coded) but conservative with my tools (pretty much only using Cursor now) to have at least some layer of stability. Otherwise stacking too many cutting edge things just feels too fragile, and will decay as AI improves, causing other issues. And this stuff is moving so fast and these companies are sufficiently motivated that the best things will make it into the tools, like plan/debug modes in Cursor.
I also feel that agentic coding is fast enough for now, so I don't even bother with multi-agent workflows. I still get a ton done and it's already at the edge of my ability to design coherently. Sure I could get 10X more code written in parallel with 10X more agents, but I can't design that fast, so it's just hurry up and wait with worse quality. And if that much code is needed I'm probably doing something wrong anyway.
Same. This is a surprisingly simple recipe for a happy life and helps prevent lifestyle inflation. It reminds me of PG's "Keep your identify small" (https://paulgraham.com/identity.html).
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