WordPress 7.0 AI updates: what’s shipping in Beta 2
WordPress 7.0’s AI updates are heading into Beta 2. This post covers the pivot away from the Abilities API, the new Connector Screen, and the dependency issues in the AI Experiments plugin.
Tag: APIs
Context engineering is your only durable AI edge
Context engineering means filling an AI model’s context window with your own domain knowledge, using structured graphs, deterministic tools, and persistent memory instead of simple RAG.
The Popover API makes tooltips simpler and more accessible
The Popover API gives WordPress developers a native, declarative way to build accessible tooltips and menus, without the JavaScript libraries and manual ARIA syncing tooltips used to require.
Machine learning engineering lessons from a short February
February was short but it made a few things obvious: solo work stalls ML projects, code is not documentation, and an MLOps stack that ignores the deployment environment never ships. Notes from a month of ML and backend work.
WooCommerce 10.5.3 patches a critical Store API bug
WooCommerce 10.5.3 patches a path validation bug in the Store API batch endpoint that let attackers skip nonce checks and gain admin access via CSRF. Don’t roll back to 10.5.2; update now and test your checkout.
CSS exploit in Chrome: how CVE-2026-2441 actually works
Ahmad Wael explains CVE-2026-2441, a Use-After-Free bug in Chrome’s Blink CSS engine triggered through @font-feature-values. It’s not literal code execution via CSS, but it’s a real reason to update your browser now.
Scaling feature engineering pipelines with Feast and Ray
Most feature pipelines are just Python scripts and CSV files until they break in production. This post covers using Feast for feature management and Ray for distributed compute to fix training-serving skew and cut latency.
Agentic RAG caching: reducing latency and token waste at scale
Agentic RAG setups waste time and money answering the same questions repeatedly. This post covers a two-tier semantic and retrieval cache, plus the validation logic needed to keep it from serving stale answers.
Production data architecture for real AI systems
Most AI features never leave the notebook. Notes on the production data architecture that gets them into a live site: separated layers, database integrity over raw insert speed, and the state and permission problems agents bring with them.
Restored: WordPress Developer Documentation for 6.9.1
WordPress developer documentation is finally updated to 6.9.1 after being stuck at 6.4 for two years. This post covers the syntax bugs, like nullable types and anonymous classes, that broke the parser, and what’s planned for WordPress 7.0.