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This is an interesting idea. On one hand it proves absolutely nothing about the accuracy of the 40% figure. That figure is widely verified, it shows up consistently with only a small variation in all the major datasets like builtwith which has deep breakdowns into segments (if you pay for it). You can actually get a list of all the sites they track, but it's a steep cost. The theory you're floating actually makes sense, WP probably has a big majority in abandoned sites, test sites etc. Lots of people have cheap shared hosting and they've spun up dozens of sites just to test things out. Still, I'm a bit surprised people would really continue to renew a domain and keep it in their hosting for years and years after it's irrelevant. The problem with assessing what that number would be, is that you have to really identify those sites. Like you're identifying the opposite, you're finding a subset of the sites that are already in the dataset and which everybody agrees are WP sites. What would be far more compelling, is if you found 1 million abandoned or blank testing sites. That would really showcase yes this theory is real, here is the list of sites that most people agree are not relevant, yet they live in the stats. Maybe the BuiltWith data can do that, but it is as I mentioned quite pricy for the full access version.

@r0ck3t23 I so much want to build a satire site that talks about management best practices and how LOC reports are the gold standard... but cost of tokens has emerges as the modern way to measure developer output.

Node graph editing is coming to WordPress, this is the new infinite canvas for managing extensions/collections/fields. Still working out the finer points of making the optimal workflow. arcwp.ca/showcase/

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@nafonsopt Here I am still paying my devs by the LOC when I should be measuring their value by how big of a bill they rack up in tokens.

I spend currently about $50 per month or $600 per year and rarely hit limits. That's Claude plus Copilot and (rarely) direct Anthropic API use. If I hit limits I just switch rather than upgrade. Having more capacity wouldn't help because I'm at my limit with oversight. More AI code to review won't help. He says 250K a year, I say he is off by 249.4K. But I wish him all the best.

@RealProductGirl I'm building Gateway a field system and graph editor for WordPress. It uses concepts from Strapi/Laravel and React. It's like a tech soup... all the nice things we didn't have in WP I gather them all up and made a plugin out of them.

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The only way I can design anything that looks okay is to basically never use any colors. My color theory is "no colors allowed". Shades only! No colors! Just one tiny dash of color in a sea of shades. #DesignThinking

@djcows Could it produce more heat if the fridge had no doors?

@rampulla_andrew It should be a crime to lease Christmas lights. A war crime. Even during peacetime. As Jesus once said, subscription based business models are an abomination.

AI will help humanity realize that digital stuff isn't real. We already know this, but we don't entirely act like it. Most economic activity should center around real things like food and shelter and medicine, but most of us are doing digital nonsense because for some reason it works economically. But AI is going to show us that it's all just artificial and can be generated, meaning it was already relatively worthless even when humans were doing it. Think about why do we need hundreds of millions of websites? Hundreds of thousands of people just writing stuff, making videos, taking photos, analyzing metrics? We need these people focused on the important things, how many cabbages can you grow in a season?

@HustleBitch_ You can make your own ink, you just need an inkfish and a tank and every day you just milk it. Most people are just too lazy or not willing to invest in the more exotic colors like the purple inkfish.

I feel like what you're saying about CSS vanilla versus Tailwind isn't true, or at least is questionable. Yes AI can write any flavor of CSS, it knows CSS in pure form. However, I think it can be argued that it's accuracy is greater with Tailwind. In theory at least it's able to conceptualize the correct pattern for elements more easily, just as humans do. Having to read HTML and CSS separately is a similar pain for machines as it for humans. This is particularly the case if the CSS uses cascading. Far more likely to end up with confusion. AI isn't beyond being confused, if you give it enough complexity it will start to fail and it will take 4 prompts to get the result instead of 1. I find BEM works well, but not as well as Tailwind. Because BEM can still introduce more variability, thus more complexity, therefore lower threshold to confusion based errors.

@jeffrey_way Always keep making great content, the money will sort itself out. At least that's what they said at the commune, until the land was repossessed.

@TannerT_NFT @interesting_aIl Only if you're really short like 8 inches tall then you could sneak through enemy lines and be a little super soldier.

My thought is that AI made the product obsolte (HTML template kits) more so than the drop in doc traffic. Those are separate issues. I think the CEO is just savvy enough to realize that people will emphathize more with the story about docs being swallowed up by AI and loss of traffic. Because that is arguably an IP/theft issue. Whereas AI making the product obsolte because it can code those templates on request, is more of an issue of "what we're you working on the last 5 years" x.com/arcwordpress/s…