Design. Engineering. Product ✴︎ VP Growth & Data @automattic ✴︎ Making @wordpressdotcom AI
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this is what product management (and a lot of engineering) looks like now.
i describe the problem, we shape it together into a PRD, it translates that into structured JSON issues/user stories, sequences the work, and then starts actually doing it.
my job is less “writing specs in a doc” and more thinking clearly, making good calls, and steering the system while it moves, fast.
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I guess it's official, I am now a special board advisor at @automattic ! Super excited to be working with @photomatt and team. Never thought a bio of mine would read "These days he’s a prolific open-source builder in the AI agent world" but here we are!
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i had 12 ChatGPT agents running in parallel for 6 hours and i managed to reverse engineer @WordPress.
i’m making it available here so you can save your tokens - 100% free & open source.
github.com/WordPress/WordPre…
i had 12 Claude agents running in parallel for 6 hours and i managed to reverse engineer @supabase
i'm making it available here so that you can save your tokens - 100% free & open-source:
github.com/supabase/supabase
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pro tip: ask @ChatGPT to slow down animations and inspect them frame by frame.
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domains at Spacefast are at cost too, btw. and can be used with any dns provider as well.
ask your agent! you can do it in chatgpt
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Congrats to the team at @wordpressdotcom for shipping some great improvements to the AI builder on WordPress.com
I helped produce this quick video showing off the improvements!
wordpress.com/blog/2026/10/1…
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i spent last week in nyc with the team, vibing on @SpacefastHQ.
we built a @ChatGPT plugin, a @bot + added initial support for design systems, analytics, selling, migrations, better domains, remixing open source spaces, and of course @SpacefastBot.
if you haven't tried it yet, ask your agent about Spacefast.
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which is which? 🏴☠️
I got a lot of pushback for saying that one product manager and one engineer can now be the entire team.
Now @danshipper has a name for it: the pirate and the architect.
I ain’t crazy after all. :-)
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glad it’s here (but took too long)
The official WordPress MCP Adapter plugin already has over 40,000 active installs, less than a week after launching in the WordPress .org plugin directory.
🔗 therepository.email/wordpres…
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nice 🐍
snake boy is on. walls are lethal, the gold pellet is worth 5, swipe works on phone 🐍 kerned-echo.space.fast/
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all the spaces @SpacefastBot has made for people so far spacefast.com/cannon/
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It’s almost like Open Source is the natural order of things. Those that embrace this law will, ultimately, be on the right side of history, bumpy as it may feel along the way.
Proprietary binaries are no longer a moat.
Solo devs running Claude Code with IDA Pro and Ghidra MCPs are decompiling 5-year AAA game engines and closed SaaS in weeks. Everything compiled on consumer hardware is becoming open source by default.
The game decomp wave:
• @rehan_shei decompiled MW2 & modding AoE: nitter.siddz.com/rehan_shei/status/2106…
• @ammaar took a 1993 DOS binary to iPhone in 30 min: nitter.siddz.com/ammaar/status/20654916…
• @profchise on Opus 5.5 porting console games: nitter.siddz.com/profchise/status/21063…
The tooling making binary moats obsolete:
• @mrexodia running Claude directly inside IDA Pro via MCP: nitter.siddz.com/mrexodia/status/190543…
• @bl4sty on automated decompiler loops: nitter.siddz.com/bl4sty/status/19048434…
• @OrcaRouter reversing closed agent harnesses: nitter.siddz.com/OrcaRouter/status/2105…
#AI #GameDev #ReverseEngineering #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering
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very cool
@SpacefastBot I just added variable functionality to a font I designed called Karbit. Make a landing page and interactive type specimen using the linked font file.
Font: brodyvercher.com/wp-content/…
Download: brodyvercher.com/wp-content/…
Karbit is a monospaced, bitmap-inspired variable font influenced by machining and fabrication. Its weight range is 400–900.
Designed to tolerance. Engineered for today.
I've included a few images showing a potential visual direction.
Surprise me.
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In the last few days I got a burst of inspiration and decided to spend around ~12 hours vibing a game.
All of this powered by @SpacefastHQ, so it was super easy to ship: open-web-survivors.view.fast…
@photomatt might or might not make a cameo on the new boat. 🏴☠️
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introducing ChatGPT plugin extensions for @SpacefastHQ!
you'll get a spacefast sidebar icon and dashboard right inside ChatGPT. just connect to mcp.spacefast.com and you're all set! 🤩
the official plugin update is soon!
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yes, you should
You can actually tell an X account to build you a site, and you can get people to interate on the same site in the comments. We're LITERALLY building in public now. Or maybe prompting in public.
Try @SpacefastBot before it's rate limited.
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