technology
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What’s your imperfect curve?
We had the absolute pleasure of visiting a private tile collection in Palermo called Museo delle Maioliche during our Automattic Team meetup this week. The collector, Pio Mellina, started his tile collection at age 11 and opens his home to the public for only a few hours a day, with a guided tour. Each of… Read more
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Building the Feedback Consolidator: where design actually breaks
There’s a statistic that’s been sitting with me for a while: 84% of designers use AI during exploration, but only 39% use it during delivery. That gap, nearly half of us dropping AI at the moment the work gets real, is what this project is about. I’ve been running an RSM (Rapid Speed Month) project… Read more
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Opting out of AI is not the political act you think it is
If you’ve read my writing, you know I’ve spent years on climate, and you know I’ve been critical of AI on environmental grounds. My recent posts have shifted toward AI, and I can see how that might read as a pivot. It isn’t. The environmental objections still stand. What’s changed is my reading of what… Read more
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How I used Claude CoWork to build a WordPress page — and what I learned about directing it
What if I ask Claude to design a WordPress page for me? At Automattic, I tried that approach three times to build a public-facing showcase of our design work with AI, and each attempt taught us that the real unlock isn’t giving Claude more tools or more autonomy, but giving it something far simpler: a… Read more
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Automating our weekly updates with Claude
By Leila Byron This weekend I’ve been playing around with Claude’s Cowork mode, and I have three experiments I want to share — both the outputs and the process behind them. Happy to share the full prompts too. The problem worth solving Three things have been sitting on my to-do list for a while: Making… Read more
