James LePage
@jameswlepage
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Eng. Director AI @automattic | @WordPress Core AI Co-Lead | Prev Founder @ https://t.co/BYD7uBRRqh (acq by Automattic)
NYC/CLT
Joined January 2022
Big news: WPAI Inc has been acquired by @automattic ! https://t.co/DjG7BaIv21 Over the past two years, our team has worked tirelessly to build applied AI solutions that empower the WordPress ecosystem. Now, we're joining the company behind WordPress[.]com, WooCommerce, Tumblr,
automattic.com
At Automattic, we’re committed to making WordPress smarter, faster, and easier for everyone. Today, we’re announcing the acquisition of a company that’s going to help us in that mission: WPAI. WPAI…
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I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
simonwillison.net
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
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Lots of good stuff in this changelog already, with a few future releases I'm really looking forward to.
For those who enjoy vibe coding slick, ad hoc blocks with Telex. We now have a changelog to make it easy to track what's new so you can take advantage of it! https://t.co/Nwae3GodIp
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Fun "glass effect" block from Telex:
telex.automattic.ai
Look at this Glass Prism Effect WordPress block I created with Telex!
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Very excited for this one:
press.stripe.com
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
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Personal Software; Zoomable globe that I can use to preview my 2025 photos based on where they were taken.
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Walking away from a long flight an expert on a niche topic that I was only somewhat familiar with before. Underrated use of GPT 5.2 Pro. 15 hours of questions.
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A major step in the rise of agentic commerce is here. @stripe just launched Agentic Commerce Suite, and WooCommerce is proud to be a launch partner. Learn more: https://t.co/BjKgZZyFMz
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"AI doesn’t replace the open web – it makes the open web more valuable, if we push in that direction. The people and platforms that create, curate, and publish will matter more in an AI-mediated internet, not less." - @jameswlepage
https://t.co/7PGnQMteJH
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Expanding on thoughts from State of The Word 2025
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As we discussed at State of The Word this year, AI in @WordPress needs buy-in from two key groups: developers and hosts. @jasontheadams has written great guides for both: For hosts: https://t.co/J9mimfiWtd For devs:
make.wordpress.org
The next generation of an AI-powered WordPress takes the involvement of every WordPress developer
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Announcement🔥 Join @jameswlepage and me on 13th January at 7pm UTC for a live session where you can ask him anything about WordPress and AI. We’ll talk through the key additions in WordPress 6.9 and look ahead at what could be on the horizon. Drop a comment below if you’d
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WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use https://t.co/3Bvk3MXH5c via @techcrunch
techcrunch.com
Though WordPress's Telex is still an experiment, the vibe-coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.
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