Trying out Claude Design to help me build the sales page for my upcoming AI development for non-coder’s course. So-far, I’m impressed by how much easier it is to use than working directly with Claude code for the same task.
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Rethinking Developer Life and Productivity with Rapid AI Advancements
Is AI making developers more productive or just more burned out? In this episode of Open Web Conversations, Zach Stepek and Carl Alexander sit down with Alex Standiford, creator of Siren Affiliates, for a raw conversation about the rapid shifts happening in the world of software development. They discuss how AI is re-shaping developer workflows, the pressures of keeping up with new tools, and the toll it can take on our mental health. From the rise of plugin platforms and the changing identity of WordPress to setting boundaries in an always-on AI era, this discussion goes beyond code to ask:…
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Interview with Alex Standiford and Nathan Wrigley.
On the podcast today we have Alex Standiford. Alex has established himself as a familiar face in the WordPress ecosystem. With a background that includes time at GoDaddy and Sandhills Development, a stint in freelancing, and now as the creator behind Siren Affiliates, an affiliate solution for WordPress, he brings both technical depth and many other qualities (as you’ll hear!). Over the years, Alex has become a passionate contributor to the WordPress community. This episode sets its sights on a topic that’s everywhere right now… AI. I know, sight, right!?! But before you reach for the skip button, the conversation…
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Alex Standiford
If AI creates slop, AND AI doesn’t create anything new, the only conclusion one can draw is that AI was trained on slop. 🤔.
That’s totally how it works, right?
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Alex Standiford
I’m looking for some podcasts that talk about web development and are looking for people to talk about AI-centric frameworks.
I really want to just nerd out about PHPNomad and the things it’s doing for my development workflows and how it’s also reducing my AI token usage.
Any takers?
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Alex Standiford
Okay, so credit where credit’s due. Codex correctly assessed a very obscure issue deep in PHPNomad’s codebase this week with a Siren client on a specific type of host.
It correctly nailed the actual problem in 1 session, and a week later I was finally able to prove it, and get the bug fixed.
Not saying Claude couldn’t do it, but it felt like it had more…tenacity, maybe?
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How I Multiply Myself Without Shipping Slop
The content creation workflow I built so I could explain Siren without burning out. Voice profile, interview, multi-pass editing, customer avatar agents. No slop.
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AI Doesn’t Have Perspective
Detector tools didn’t catch my AI proposal. My client did. Here’s what your readers notice that the detectors miss, and how to fix it without bypass tricks.
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AI Blindness Is the New Ad Blindness
Most ‘how to make ChatGPT sound human’ advice is a magic prompt. It doesn’t work. Here’s why your readers can spot AI from across the room, and what actually fixes it.
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Alex Standiford
This has been a pretty big time/money saver with PHPNomad. I set up a CLI that makes it possible to scaffold code that fits PHPNomad’s patterns quickly. With it, I’m able to establish patterns in projects and save the patterns as JSON files in my PHPNomad projects so AI can leverage them when it needs to create things again later.
Not only does this save a lot on tokens, it also ensures that AI doesn’t have to guess when I say “Use the x pattern that is established in this repository to do y”
It can also discover them on its own, which is nice.
The CLI also has the capability to index pretty much all of PHPNomad’s code and save it into a batch of JSONL files, which allows AI agents to grok my project quickly without combing through the entire codebase.
It has had a profound impact on my AI token usage.
https://github.com/phpnomad/cli
