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Is vibe coding bad? No. It's a fast, cheap way to get a prototype or an internal tool working, and I use it most days. It goes wrong when the software has to follow rules the AI was never told about: tax law, money, permissions, two users at the same second. On our own invoice …Continue reading

Why is my writing flagged as AI? Because detectors and suspicious readers judge surface habits: dashes, tidy lists, even rhythm, polite openings. Models learned every one of those habits from human writers, so careful human writing now looks machine-made. Deleting the habits doesn't fix it. What proves you wrote it is a clear position, details …Continue reading

Headless WordPress is the wrong choice for most business websites. A well-cached traditional WordPress site already loads fast, and while headless does improve security, that's a bonus rather than a reason to rebuild. What you do get is a second codebase, a WordPress backend working as an API server, plugins that stop working, and an …Continue reading

A slow WordPress admin is usually blamed on plugin count, and plugin count is usually only part of it. On our own site the real chain was a six-process PHP-FPM pool on shared hosting, 2,800 daily wp-cron hits, 6,700 daily bot 404s, and two plugins waiting seven seconds on dead remote servers. A read-only WordPress …Continue reading

Blocking AI bots is the wrong question, because there are three kinds and they do different things. Search bots and agent bots send you traffic or citations, so allow them everywhere. Training bots give nothing back, so decide page by page: allow on marketing content you want AI to know about, block on anything you …Continue reading

A white screen right after a plugin update is almost always that plugin throwing a PHP fatal error. The fix is to deactivate it without going through wp-admin (which you can't reach anyway): click the recovery mode link WordPress emailed you, or rename the plugin's folder over FTP. The site comes back. Then you decide …Continue reading

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