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This entry is part 21 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceThis is based on a thread that I posted to Bluesky that I decided to keep here for posterity. If you want to discuss on Bluesky, follow me at @jazzsequence.com and let’s chat. Let’s talk about AI. I’ve been using it a lot recently. It’s not that I don’t see or care about the environmental […]

This entry is part 20 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceFor the last couple weeks, I’ve been building a headless Next.js frontend for this site — a project I’ve been calling jazz-nextjs. The idea is straightforward enough: keep WordPress as the content management layer (where I actually like writing) while serving the public-facing site through a modern React frontend hosted on Pantheon’s Next.js infrastructure. What’s […]

The cat is finally out of the bag. I was officially named Interim President of The WP Community Collective this week. When I joined The WPCC as a member last year, it was not too long after going to my first DrupalCon. DrupalCon Atlanta was enlightening for a lot of reasons. But most relevant to […]

Last week, I took my first trip to Canada for WordCamp Canada 2025 (WCEH). Anyone who follows me on social media, may have seen the video I recorded in anticipation of the trip. While sadly I didn’t do a lot of exploring, I had a number of takeaways from the event. Organization There have been […]

This entry is part 19 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceI want to talk today about Sora 2 and the new Sora AI app. First of all, Sora is not new. OpenAI released Sora about a year ago initially and, at the time, it was a sort of hidden part of ChatGPT that let you make bad videos. And trust me, they were bad. I […]

Since WordCamp US this year, I’ve been making some cute shorts with the Wapuu I brought back home from Portland. I’ve made two so far to promote me going to BADCamp and WordCamp Canada. My thought is that, in my role as Developer Advocate, I kind of need a “personal brand” and be doing things […]

This entry is part 18 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceAt the same time as I was fighting with GPT-5 to give me the thing I actually wanted, I also used the Gemini app and the access I have to pro-level Gemini models to do the Lovecraft test with 2.5-pro. Previously, I had only tested with Flash-2.0, so, not only should this be a more […]

This entry is part 17 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceGPT-5 is out now and I’ve only had a couple occasions to interact with it directly. So, I thought it was time to run it through the Lovecraft test. ChatGPT has adopted this quirk of late where, when it’s done answering your question or responding to your prompt, it says something to the effect of […]

I’ve seen a lot of doomsaying about the death of the internet. Last night, I was reading about how integrated AI answers in search results leads to a drastic drop in clicks to the actual sites from which AIs derive the information to answer those questions or make those suggestions. It’s been noted that AI […]

Last Wednesday, a ban was lifted from my WordPress.org account that had been there since sometime in January (or possibly before). I discovered that I was banned on January 6th. I did not receive any communication, any notification, any reason for the block. I assumed it was a mistake. I wasn’t the only one. Many […]

Sé Reed took this picture of my water bottle at PressConf. “That’s epic,” she said. I agree. I assume she saw in it the same thing I did when I found it — ourselves. The funny thing is, despite this sentiment being prevalent amonst those of us that have been in the WordPress community for […]

This entry is part 16 of 21 in the series Artificial IntelligenceI’ve been sitting on this one for longer than I should have (and then, obviously, forgetting entirely about it). After putting DeepSeek through the ropes for my Lovecraft test, I decided to try Google’s Gemini. I haven’t used Gemini much, although I have used NotebookLLM which is based on Gemini, and I think it generally […]