Using Claude for data science now goes well past chat prompts. Three skills I’d pick up: throwaway interactive dashboards for EDA, Claude Cowork for Jira and reporting chores, and Claude Code for tracing broken dbt pipelines.
The WordPress AI plugin 1.0.0 adds Request Logging and Connector Approvals, which give site owners real control over which plugins use AI and what they spend. Here is what changed and what developers should do about it.
The latest WordPress.com sprint brought Jetpack Podcast, the WordPress Workspace Mac app with an AI agent, and a Blueprints Gallery in Studio. The common thread is local-first development and less repeated setup work.
Stack Overflow’s question volume has collapsed and developers now ask AI instead. I look at why AI-generated code quality is turning into a security and maintenance problem for WordPress sites, with a WooCommerce example.
WordPress.com has a beta of the Easy Site Editor, a chat panel that edits your site through MCP. It’s fast for small changes, but developers should watch how it handles layout control and block restrictions.
A static RAG pipeline goes stale fast. Here’s why grounding LLMs with live search results works better for real-time facts, and how to wire a search API into your WordPress backend with PHP and transients.
A demo that works one time in ten is a liability, not a feature. Here is why LLMs hallucinate, why their confidence scores lie, and how I validate AI output in WordPress before it ever reaches a user.
I stopped hand-reviewing every line my coding agents write. What I do instead: fine-grained permissions in settings.json, a strict deny list for destructive commands, and a second agent that reviews the first one’s work.
I spent months trying to make Claude Code my main tool, but since GPT-5.5 I’ve moved complex WordPress refactoring back to OpenAI Codex. Here’s my setup: reasoning levels, Playwright MCP, and a worktree alias.
WordPress 7.0 brings a central Connectors hub and a Connector Approval flow for AI credentials. Here’s what the May 2026 plan means in practice: custom tables for request logging, the AI Plugin 1.0.0 release, and what the approval flow does and doesn’t protect.