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Testing in agentic coding is no longer a safety net written after the code. Tests are now the specification, the constraint, and the steering wheel for the AI agent itself. Teams that define expected behavior as tests before the agent writes a line ship faster and break less. Teams that let the agent grade its …Continue reading

WordPress plugin security is usually discussed as a code quality problem, but for most live sites it starts as a visibility problem. The information you would need to judge an estate exists in the database, in cron, and in public advisory feeds. It is just scattered across places no admin screen shows you. The argument …Continue reading

Agentic coding tools build the most conventional version of whatever you ask for. We asked for an invoicing system and got textbook accounting software, including a void feature that would have carried a GST liability on unpaid export invoices. Two diff-backed incidents from that build show why the fix is domain knowledge in the spec, …Continue reading

Version control is a system that records every change to your project so you can see what changed, when, and by whom, and roll back to any earlier state. If you have spent years dragging files into FileZilla, you already understand most of it: a repository is your project folder, a commit is a save …Continue reading

MCP 2026-07-28 is the fifth revision of the Model Context Protocol, and it retires sessions and the initialize handshake in favor of plain request and response. That change suits WordPress unusually well. PHP already treats every request as an independent, shared-nothing process, so a WordPress MCP server no longer has to fake a persistent connection …Continue reading

Will AI replace web developers? It will replace the part of the job that was always mechanical: translating a decided design into working syntax. It will not replace knowing what is being built, what it is built on, and why. I call that second skill fluency without keystrokes, and it is the one I have …Continue reading

WordPress 7.0 "Armstrong" (released May 20, 2026) adds native AI infrastructure to core: the WP AI Client, a Connectors screen, and the Abilities API. But core ships the wiring, not the intelligence. WordPress itself burns no tokens. Cost only begins when you connect a provider and a plugin actually calls it, and you pay that …Continue reading

AI technical debt is what you get when an AI assistant refactors code it has never seen and deletes anything whose purpose isn't obvious, including the guards that quiet edge-case bugs. The clean diff hides the lost context: speed today, a production failure next quarter. The fix isn't banning AI. It's knowing which old code …Continue reading

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is an architecture, not a model. You chunk your content, embed it into a vector store, retrieve the most relevant chunks at query time, and feed them into an LLM so it answers from your data instead of its training memory. It exists to solve one problem: a knowledge base too large …Continue reading

Shopify Plus SEO is the technical work needed to keep enterprise Shopify stores indexed cleanly and ranking competitively at scale — typically 1,000+ SKUs, multi-currency, and often headless. It comes down to five things: passing Core Web Vitals on a heavy theme, keeping on-page schema synced with Google Merchant Center, controlling filter and pagination crawl …Continue reading