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WP Briefing: Episode 70: A Look Ahead at WordPress in 2024

Curious about WordPress's big-picture items for 2024? Phase 3, Data Liberation, new meetups, and more, get the spotlight in this episode. Join Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy for all this, plus a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks.

WP Briefing: Episode 69: Reflections on State of the Word

In this episode, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on the recent 2023 State of the Word, which took place in Madrid, Spain, and some of the highlights of the work across the WordPress open source project.

What is UI 2.0? Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains

For our final episode of the year we chat with Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann about the way AI is reshaping software development and the trends he's excited about for 2024.

From prompt attacks to data leaks, LLMs offer new capabilities and new threats

While there’s a lot of dangers out there, it’s not all doom and gloom; we also talk about how to mitigate these threats.

The tax change that’s hurting startups and developers

In the United States, R&D expenses and software development suddenly got a lot more expensive, leading to surprise layoffs. Plus, what defines shovelware, game developers look towards unionization, and the right way to kill your process.

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.

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.

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.