Mark Gillett

Passionate about building companies, leaders & adaptive organizations at scale. Now:Silver Lake. Then:COO @Skype & SVP #MSFT. Personal views - opinions my own.

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

Software turns once and done 'durable' products into living things that want to evolve.

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We’re introducing MCP for Smart Search AI, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects agents, LLMs, and AI systems of all kinds to your real-time website content.

It’s a foundational shift that ensures AI answers are always grounded in truth, not yesterday’s stale scraped data.

Read more about how MCP redefines what’s possible in the age of AI: https://t.co/GC6thS3moA

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

The question of the moment should be less “How much of your code is an AI creating?”, and more “How much incremental customer value did we create with AI last <timeperiod>?”.

[WP Engine @wpengine]

15 years ago, WP Engine was founded with a clear purpose: to make WordPress sites faster, safer, and easier to build and scale.

From a small team to a global community, we've never lost site of what matters most: the people.

Here's to 15 years of fueling the open web and the ones who make it all possible. https://t.co/DSu7DTAAE5

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

@bdurette The second edition added some valuable fresh content!

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

@bdurette It’s broader than just ‘the Cloud’, but there’s a trove of really valuable content in ‘Refactoring’ (Fowler, Beck). The second edition added a lot of incremental good stuff (and Martin is a prolific writer on the topic at his blog). https://t.co/TUIMTl8nu7

[Advanced Custom Fields @wp_acf]

🚀 ACF & ACF PRO 6.4 now available.

This is a major release which brings WooCommerce HPOS support to ACF PRO, with other fixes and improvements.

https://t.co/QbPGsRuO3g

[Brian Gardner @bgardner]

This is exciting news! Love that we are sponsoring and that we’ll have some of our @wpengine team members there. ☁️🚀

[The Webby Awards @TheWebbyAwards]

ArtVersion developed an impressive display of art in an immersive digital experience, serving as both an educational resource and a tribute to Candice B. Groot.

We've partnered with @wpengine to bring you the 2024 Crafted With Code showcase: Innovation: https://t.co/TctjQSYZr0

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

As we continue to explore the enormous potential of AI through more ‘agentic’ systems we will be forced to think about job specifications. The job spec’s we have for the people who work in our organizations today; measurement systems; and the job specifications for our agents!

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

Viable lower cost GenAI model training could unlock massively more academic participation (even leadership) in model building and has the exciting potential to massively increase the number of approaches that can be simultaneously explored on the path to ng reasoning.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

This explains almost all modern politics:

When you can't grow the size of the pie, you focus on how to divide the pie.

When you're growing the pie, there is more for everyone. When you're dividing the pie, it's all about how big of a slice you can get.

People who can grow the pie are heroes, not villains.

[WP Engine @wpengine]

As we step into the new year, we're proud to look back on 2024—a year of innovation, growth, and milestones that have shaped our journey forward! 🧵👇

[WP Engine @wpengine]

We are grateful that the court has granted our motion for a preliminary injunction that restores access to and functionality of wordpressdotorg for WP Engine, its customers and its users.
This ruling provides much-needed stability for the WordPress ecosystem. We deeply appreciate our customers for their continued trust and support. We remain committed to serving them and their sites with the performance, availability and integrity they deserve while collaborating to ensure a vigorous, thriving and stable WordPress community.
You can view the Court’s order in full, here https://t.co/8TkfAXqEue

[Brian Gardner @bgardner]

Heads up y’all... I’m hosting Build Mode tomorrow at 12 noon ET / 9 AM PT! 🎙️ It’s a live, interactive call for the #WordPress community. We’ll explore the upcoming release and new features. Interested in joining the fun? Register here 👉 https://t.co/fmLHIWmaVn

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

@MatthewBerman Perhaps it will just look like object code!

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

@stevesi @ABomb88 Maybe it’s the UWP version!. 😉 Looks like they fixed the dependency on constant sync with a mobile device and adopted websockets.

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

@stevesi @ABomb88 At the risk of re-igniting discussions as to communications apps in the WinRT framework, did you take a look at the network - I think the WhatsApp desktop app syncs data to your mobile device and so likely has a sync activity and likely keeps the network up!

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

It falls to all of us to resist (& refuse to amplify) the common tendency to speculation, sensation, outsized claims, outrage, & ‘falsepertise’ that new technologies so often seem to stimulate - whether in portents of doom, or prophets of global transformation. Pause & reflect!

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

The degree to which non technical folks are speculating on how Apple (and Microsoft)’s new client side AI operate (particularly with regard to what data is sent where and when), and the speed with which technical folks assume they understand is breathtaking!

[Mark Gillett @magillett]

There are good arguments for companies developing and shipping ‘AI’ to take the time to write and share good quality white papers and technical marketing material (when did that tradition die?); transparency and explainability matters for new technologies!