WordPress.org now runs an MCP server for the plugin directory, so an AI assistant can validate readme.txt, check where a submission sits in the queue and read the guidelines from the source. The review team still holds you responsible for the code.
A run at differentiable rule induction: the model wrote its own IF-THEN fraud rules, rediscovered V14 without help, and went dark in three of five runs. Notes on the consistency loss and when the architecture is worth shipping.
AI coding assistants write decent functions and miss the system around them. A naive REST endpoint next to a reviewed one, two outage stories, and the workflow I use to keep an agent on a leash.
Linear regression is a projection: you look for the point where the error vector meets the feature space at a right angle. Vectors, dot products, a forest-and-highway analogy, and the scikit-learn code that matches it.
SAP-RPT-1 applies transformer pretraining to relational tables, so you feed it context rows instead of training a model per use case. My notes on the cost that moves to inference, the merge logic the API needs, and why one universal model still looks unlikely.
Zero-heavy data breaks a single regression, and the +1 log-transform hack does not save it. How I split CLV prediction into a hurdle classifier and an amount regression, with the two mistakes that bite in production.
Telex is Automattic’s experimental tool for generating block themes from a prompt. What the output actually contains, the templates you have to ask for, and why I test every generated ZIP in Playground first.
The Connectors API gives WordPress one registry for external services, starting with AI providers. Notes on the init lifecycle, the unregister and register dance for overrides, and the keys that sit unencrypted in wp_options.
Shadow AI shows up because the official workflow is slower than the shortcut. Here is how I read that usage as a signal, and what a governed option looks like inside a WordPress stack.
AI coding assistants write PHP that reads fine and falls over in production. A WooCommerce audit, the naive fetch they keep producing, and the refactor I run it through.