LLM agent evaluation before you ship to production
Offline evaluation for LLM agents: routing accuracy, LLM-as-judge scoring, and RAG faithfulness, plus the quality gate I use to block a deploy when the scores come in under threshold.
Author: Ahmad Wael
I'm a WordPress and WooCommerce developer with 15+ years of experience building custom e-commerce solutions and plugins. I specialize in PHP development, following WordPress coding standards to deliver clean, maintainable code. Currently, I'm exploring AI and e-commerce by building multi-agent systems and SaaS products that integrate technologies like Google Gemini API with WordPress platforms, approaching every project with a commitment to performance, security, and exceptional user experience.
Plugin Directory MCP Server: submit plugins from your IDE
WordPress.org now runs an MCP server for the Plugin Directory. It lets AI editors like Cursor and Claude validate readme.txt, check submission status, and submit plugins without leaving the editor.
AI 0.6.0: image editing and a cleaner feature model
AI 0.6.0 turns experiments into a type of feature, adds iterative image editing in the Media Library, and renames hooks. C2PA content provenance is queued for 0.7.0.
Nonlinear constrained optimization with PWL approximations
How to linearize a nonlinear objective with piecewise linear approximations, keep the segments adjacent using SOS type 2, and hand the result to an ordinary LP/MIP solver like Gurobi.
Scroll-driven corner-shape animations in Chrome 139+
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WordPress MCP AI agents can now write to your site
WordPress.com has added 19 write abilities to its MCP integration, so an agent can create posts, pages, media and terms. Drafts by default, explicit approval before every change, and your own role still caps what it can reach.
textIndent block support lands in WordPress 7.0
WordPress 7.0 gives paragraphs native indentation with no custom CSS. How to opt a custom block in from block.json, choose between the subsequent and all selectors, and set the default in theme.json.
What managed WordPress hosting fixes in an agency stack
Most agencies build their own stack and end up debugging Nginx instead of shipping. What plugin bloat really costs, and what Encircle Technologies changed when they moved to managed hosting.
A WordPress website design service beats a DIY build
Scott Wilson came out of a liver transplant with an organ donation campaign to run, not time to debug a slider. Why he had his site built for him instead of assembling it himself.
Causal inference and the accuracy trap in ML
A readmission model with 94% accuracy made things worse because it found a correlation, not a cause. Where Pearl’s ladder of causation comes in, and how DoWhy’s four steps keep you honest.