Today's my last day as Head of AI at Automattic, and Core AI lead for WordPress. Shocking to think it's been only 18 months since the WPAI acquisition.
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So much has happened. We formed Core AI for @WordPress, built the AI Building Blocks (the last ships in 7.0), grew Automattic AI from from ~10 folks to 50+, and #core-ai went from 0 to 1,000+.
@automattic shipped AI site builders, built-in agents, Telex, agentic commerce in Woo, Parsely Sage, MCPs… an incredible group to get to work with each day, async or in the NoHo space.
Building with agents has this weird gap.
Claude or Codex builds HTML in minutes. Mockups, diagrams, playgrounds.
But the file sits on my laptop. Can't send to a designer, can't peek while AFK.
So I built Peekable. Been using it myself for months.
The best thing you can do in NYC is cowork with other motivated professionals from beautiful-looking spaces around the city.
Last week we did exactly that at the Branch with an awesome group of people.
Thank you all for joining.
We're planning more workdays in May.
@fba I run all my forms through like gpt 5.5 mini or something to classify as spam or real (with some context on what is legit/ my biz) and I just never see the things that get denied after classification