Aaron Ware

@williamsba @harvest Not vibed but we basically did the same thing, bill was getting crazy for not really great features, @BFisch22 moved all reporting and budgeting so it's in ClickUp and a WordPress based portal.

I can't get over that my @harvest annual bill is going from $2,500/year to this recommended setup of $25,000/year. Are they insane?! 😱 Anyways, I just exported 10+ years of Harvest time tracking data into my vibe coded archive. Switching off Harvest end of May. ✌️

@mattmedeiros I made this recently. consepo.com I haven't really pushed it out there/marketed yet, so "Breaking News"? Plugin on wordpress.org coming soon

Share Sunday: What have you built (with users!) thanks to AI?

@aBearded_Ginger @jeffr0

@jeffr0 @aaronware was coming here to say that. What if production is AI

I don't care how many safeguards you have in place; hooking up AI to production is a bad, bad move. It's a ticking time bomb.

As a paying customer, @SEMRush is kinda garbage huh? I can see why @Adobe bought it. Team has been using it for a few years, first time I logged in since purchasing it for them and it's basically upsell after upsell. It completely falls in line with their other offerings

@NoahKahan Pitchfork giving you a low score is a badge of honor. Feel good about it. As an example, even if you aren't a fan of @Tool this about sums it up

Pitchfork giving me low score but being generally kind I’ll take the fuckin wins where I can get them

@jeffr0 It will go down as the largest Ponzi scheme in history

Where’s all the cool Web 3.0 shit? Where’s all the cool supposedly useful NFT shit? I haven’t paid for shit in crypto.

@DerekAshauer @ConversionWP @linchpin_agency I would probably end up with cover up on top of cover up until I just looked like the Davey Havok from AFI where my arms would be almost completely black. Though it does look sick

@aaronware @ConversionWP @linchpin_agency If I can't decide what I want a website to look like, I will never be OK with a tattoo either - hard pass

You ever spend weeks designing/building a site, then one day wake up and just hate it? Making sites for yourself is so much harder than clients New @ConversionWP site coming soon! 🤣

It's that time of year again where some random new "Rep" that the team has never spoken to from @wpengine cold emails because they see "Elevated Usage" on an account an immediately tries to upsell to a larger account.

The WordPress community has a visibility-to-competence ratio problem. The loudest voices aren’t always building products of any real substance. Posting frequency, podcast appearances, and conference stages don’t tell you how big the business actually is. Some of the most visible people here run companies that aren’t nearly as successful as their personal brand suggests. Building a real product, not a feature with a landing page, is harder and slower than building an audience. Post count is not a proxy for competence. Worth keeping in mind when you’re deciding who to learn from.

@samdotb Anecdotally have you tried @conductor_build I use it more than CC directly, if you are using CC (and/or OAI) give it a shot as well if you don't want to CC directly

how come every time I try to use claude code it just fails at even the simplest things, but everyone seems to have massive success with it?

@Austen What does "writes better code" mean? With out proper prompts and direction ALL agents fail at simple abstraction & consistently create dupe code (non DRY). Volume !== Better, if that is what you mean, velocity I can not argue, it can write a lot fast. "Every" not yet, soon maybe

A danger I see in vibe coding for non hobby projects, is users saying "Make me this" and it "works" for them from very limited use, but they don't ask "how can I exploit or abuse this or that". They assume AI will "think" about or solve those things automatically & it does not

@dhh @MichaelDell @elonmusk Saving Twitter from censorship is hysterical considering how the platform can easily be shown to more biased than ever before, engagement is down across all users even paid, bots still prevalent. Hemorrhaging so much money he had to sell it twice to hide it and his debt

@MichaelDell @elonmusk Elon saving Twitter from the claws of censorship will go down in history as one of the all-time greatest stands for intellectual freedom. A real fork in the timeline of humanity.

Without this global town square for free speech, a lot of important things never would’ve seen daylight. Real-time information governments tried to bury. Scientific debate that was actively censored. Voices that would’ve stayed silenced forever. Respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena when it actually counted. 🫡🙏

You realize how much @WordPress has helps devs create products including SAAS when you understand how much of burden is taken away when you develop something outside of it. Auth, User mgmt, content types, organization, etc. Just things you take for granted that you have to build

What are some Artists/Bands/Groups that you like now but you completely slept on when they were active. One of mine is Blackalicious. I listen to a lot of Hip-Hop and just never really gave them a real listen til after streaming become a thing

@mattmedeiros Grok is garbage, always has been, and I fear for Cursor w/ their new deal

Grok following the WordPress news is…interesting.

@jeffr0 BTW I agree with you, its confusing, not only to you as an experienced user, but even more so to a new user to the ecosystem

@jeffr0 Yeah I think it's a string that needs replacement. It's not saying "Jetpack" per se, it's because anything that is outside of .com connecting to .com is typically using Jetpack to do so that includes Woo related items

I don't have Jetpack installed, so why is WooCommerce giving me an error about a plugin that's not even on the site? If I had Jetpack installed, then ok, the error makes sense.