James W. LePage - Co-Founder, Parisi Labs
Ask the Grid (ATG) is a unique artifact speaking to the state of creating software today. Recently, I was up in the Hudson Valley for an in-person hackathon / planning session. Since I left Automattic, we ve been forming a startup building foundational technology to model and control complex systems. The progress in just a few [ ]
A viral paper had an LLM writing its own training data. That's not what I need. Here's what I've learned generating synthetic time series for models that make decisions in complex systems.
Today is my last day at Automattic as Head of AI, and my last day as Core AI lead for the WordPress project. Since the WPAI acquisition, it s been an incredible ride and shocking to think that it s been only a year and a half. (And if you re here because you heard I m building something [ ]
The history of language is a history of cost collapses. Writing was one. The alphabet was another. The printing press was the most disruptive of all, not because it was the most sophisticated, but because it took the cost of producing language and crashed it by an order of magnitude. Before Gutenberg, a single Bible [ ]
WordCamp Asia 2026 was in Mumbai this year. Over 800 people in the room. I couldn t be there in person due to a last minute family issue, so I delivered the flagship opening keynote live from Charlotte, North Carolina. Coffee in hand, middle of the night (for me). Thank you to the contributors and AV [ ]
I recently wrote that one of the most rewarding pieces of working in my role as head of AI at Automattic and the core AI co-lead at WordPress is seeing the foundational components of AI that we architected and then built into WordPress actually being used. We designed the building blocks to the best of [ ]
Claude recently gave users near-unlimited access as part of a launch promotion. That kind of access unlocks a different way of working. Write a strong prompt. Generate a complete working solution, frontend and backend, as fast as possible. Not a feature, not a component. The whole thing. Then start sculpting. What follows is hundreds of [ ]
WordPress 7.0 is a milestone worth pausing on before the next thing takes over the conversation. When I was still building WPAI, the idea of WordPress having first-class AI infrastructure felt distant. It was a blogging platform. A CMS, albeit one with massive distribution. The assumption was that serious AI work happened somewhere else, on [ ]