Scaling WordPress data to 127 million points
A security report built on 127 million data points, and what it took: raw SQL instead of WP_Query, a resumable WP-CLI batch script, and segmentation that finally gave the numbers some contrast.
Tag: APIs
AI response streaming and the 15-second spinner
Waiting on a full JSON payload from an LLM leaves users on a spinner for 15 seconds. Streaming with server-sent events, the ReadableStream code that consumes it, and when validation means you should not stream at all.
AI data analysis is now the first analyst on my team
AI writes the query now and I check it. That includes the time an elegant LLM-generated join pushed a production database to 98% CPU, plus the utility I use to export sanitized WooCommerce data for analysis.
Bits-over-Random metric: why more context hurts AI agents
The Bits-over-Random Metric compares your retrieval against random chance, which is how you catch the context pollution a high Success@K hides. Notes on staged tool routing and where the collapse regime starts.
WordPress 7.0 release delayed to fix the collaboration layer
WordPress 7.0 slipped a few weeks so the collaboration layer can sit on a custom table instead of transients. What that means for polling load, cache invalidation, and any plugin still using classic metaboxes.
The AI engineer career path really takes about two years
The six-month version of this career change is a sales pitch. Coming from a software background it took closer to two years, and the money goes to people who can ship a RAG system that does not leak data, not to people who can write prompts.
Owned digital assets and the WhatsApp business that vanished
A client ran her entire business through WhatsApp until the account was blocked on a Tuesday. What owned digital assets mean in practice, and why Brazil’s first Automattic partner writes WordPress.com into its contracts.
Personal AI agent development moved my job to orchestration
A colleague shipped a custom assistant in a couple of hours by wiring Google Calendar, Microsoft To Do and Notion together. Execution stopped being the bottleneck, and here is a Gemini API scheduler you can start from inside WordPress.
WordPress design trends 2026: less hand-coding, more prompting
A decade of explaining why WordPress sites don’t feel like apps, and what 2026 changes: blocks described to an AI instead of scaffolded by hand, the Interactivity API handling state without page reloads, and theme.json holding the design system.
PyTorch model drift: patching the model while it serves traffic
Drift usually means a scramble for labels and a multi-hour retraining job. This is the other route: a trainable ReflexiveLayer over a frozen backbone, label-free drift triggers, and async weight updates that never block inference. It recovered 27.8 points of accuracy and cost recall.