Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
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I can think. I can wait. I can fast.
The Future
Joined November 2006
Wow, the interview podcast with Kleiner Perkins Grit has passed 100k views, check it out if you haven't seen it already:
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My partner/cofounderās ālaying deskā of the past 10 years has finally been exposed to the internet š I had one for 3 years, but eventually found my body likes to move more. Itās incredible for focus, though!
The Claude Code hype is real Over our @imbue_ai winter break, I wanted to see how fast I could reconstruct the lowest level of our product as an AI engineering principles experimentāvibe engineering, not just vibe coding. In < 2 weeks, I shipped over 50k lines of high quality
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A really well written overview of how we're engineering AI products for @wordpressdotcom by @artpi. You can see some of the Core AI WordPress work pop up there, and also see the pure talent and curiosity that runs rampant in this group @automattic. https://t.co/t8HZ3xXF0m
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Agentic frameworks are dime a dozen, agents are LLMs calling tools in a loop, and absolutely the hardest part about working on agentic frameworks is resisting the urge to overcomplicate things.
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Iām going Founder Mode on my cancer. Below is Elliot Hershbergās article about my cancer journey. It gave language to something Iād been doing instinctively over the past year: managing my health in Founder Mode. Manager mode assumes that existing systems will surface the best
Going Founder Mode On Cancer https://t.co/pGxM34IrC3 Sid Sijbrandij is a generational founder. He founded and led GitLab, one of the largest remote companies in the world, from idea-stage startup to NASDAQ-listed software giant. But in 2022, a six centimeter mass growing from
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Will the yen carry trade unwind? Are trade wars back on the menu? What is the copper/gold ratio telling us? If you're trading the 2026 markets with a 2021 playbook, you're the liquidity š§µ 1/4
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never make major life decisions 30 days after a meditation retreat or an encounter with a frontier AI product
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Core AI has released WP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating how well AI models understand WordPress development. https://t.co/tPKWYCngfP This is an early release and the dataset is small, so contributions are welcome: test cases, grading improvements, benchmark results.
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How well do language models actually understand WordPress? To answer this, weāre introducing WP-Bench ā the official WordPress AI benchmark. WP-Bench evaluates how well AI models undersā¦
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This is the best summary of the personal impact of the California Wealth Tax I've seen. Founders, if you have super voting shares, your tax liability may be substantially higher than your net worth. Private company shareholders, especially those in heavy industries, face a
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The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, a California ballot initiative, would ostensibly impose a one-time tax of 5 percent on the net worth of the stateās billionaires. Due, however, to aggressive design...
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We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of āinnovationā depends on stealing creatorsā work without asking or paying, thatās not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldnāt accept it.
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Genuinely a brilliant analogy for vibe-coding. - theres unused parts of the track, just like random code and files that Claude generates - the train goes off track, goes backwards, and then ends up back in its loop, just like Claude - it technically works, and would go on
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'Itās probably underappreciated how Dilbert (andĀ Office Space) made millions of better managers by making fun and teaching people what not to do.' Interesting obit for @ScottAdamsSays by @photomatt, founder of @WordPress.
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RIP Scott Adams. Early Dilbert was the first cartoon I fell in love with, and early dilbert.com was one of the first websites I remember visiting. My dad would print out cartoons and put them on hiā¦
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Games that consumed a lot of my time as a kid/teen, but later translated into real-world application in business and professional career (in no particular order, and def. missing a bunch): Tetris Age of Empires 1, 2 StarCraft Command & Conquer (multiple series) SimCity 2000,
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Itās easier for me to trade copper on chain than it is for me to trade it via my tradfi brokersā¦
Today we're announcing the launch of 5 new RWAs on @solana Tokenized ETFs for: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium and Copper Precious metals ā tokenized, programmable, and onchain Now live for trading on Solana.
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governments need to start gamifying paying taxes give me a battlepass awards and unlocks once you paid $ xyz in taxes notifications what has been paid (you just paid a teachers salary) the IRS should at least send a plaque make paying taxes fun
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John Mayer delivered an emotional eulogy for his friend and mentor, Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, during a public memorial held in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon. "Good afternoon. Bobby and I were born on the same day, exactly 30 years apart. Libras. While the
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One thing this really highlights for me is we need to make it much easier to contribute to and collaborate on an existing plugin. Then we'll have hundreds more community plugins that graduate to canonical.
Are you curious about what plugins were launched in 2025? So was I so I had Claude figure it out for me -->
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Anthropic literally dropped the smartest one-pager on using AI at work
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Skies and weather like this, Houston makes it hard to leave.
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I stopped paying for Grammarly once I found out there's a free open-source alternative https://t.co/vb6ZWyivdi
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