Can an AI get depressed?
Ben and Ryan discuss the golden age of digital piracy, the Sisyphean task of keeping kids off the internet, and seasonal depression in AI.
Bringing context to alerting and incident management
Ben and Ryan talk with Robert Ross, the CEO and co-founder of FireHydrant about the problem with alerting and incident management today, how holiday code freezes change incident management, and how Robert accidentally became a CEO.
What Gemini means for the GenAI boom
The home team talks about Google’s new AI model, Gemini; the problems with regulating technology that evolves as quickly as AI; how governments can spy on their citizens via push notification; and more.
State of the Word 2023 Recap
On December 11, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg traveled to beautiful Madrid, Spain, to deliver his annual State of the Word keynote. It was the first time this event took place outside the United States. Against the backdrop of Palacio Neptuno—an iconic architectural gem and UNESCO World Heritage site—nearly 200 contributors, developers, extenders, and friends of […]
Three types of AI-assisted programmers
What matters isn’t just whether you use it, but how.
WP Briefing: Episode 68: Toward a More Interconnected Web
In this episode, WordPress Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy articulates the vision for a collaborative ecosystem where knowledge sharing and contributions to open source tools lead to a more interconnected and empowered web.
The Month in WordPress – November 2023
November is usually a busy month for the WordPress project, and this year is no different. Following the empowering release of WordPress 6.4, the energy continues to build, setting the stage for the anticipated State of the Word and upcoming projects.
One weird trick for teaching users your software
Ben talks with James Evans, cofounder and CTO of CommandBar, an AI-powered user assistance platform, about the software usability challenges CommandBar wants to address, the evolution of the company’s natural language search bar, and the future of dynamic interfaces and universal agents.
How we’re enriching the Teams essentials to make collaboration easier
In spite of all of the AI innovation that’s happened over the last year, we still believe that a human and community-centered approach to knowledge management is the best way for organizations to unlock the benefits of AI.
Enterprise 2023.3: Enriching the Stack Overflow for Teams Essentials
After launching major features like Communities and Connectivity and a completely new API in 2023, we’re returning to some of the fundamentals of Stack Overflow for Teams to enrich the core experience and help connect users to knowledge faster.