😅 WordPress wants to push AI to almost half of the Internet, good luck with that.
｢ The AI push is coming straight from Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg. He’s very into the magical CEO-level promises of vibe coding, with his new tool Telex, which is supposed to compete with instant vibe-website builders like Lovable ｣
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/15/wordpress-wants-to-force-ai-onto-43-of-all-websites-in-the-world/
Matt certainly knows how to make a comeback
Automattic Inc. Claims It Owns the Word 'Automatic'
https://www.404media.co/automattic-automatic-trademark-matt-mullenweg-kevin-geary/
"The announcement also raises questions about what this means for #Tumblr’s integration with the #opensocialweb, known as the fediverse. By migrating its infrastructure to #WordPress, it would have become a #federatedapp. #Mullenweg admits that was one of the arguments for making the move, but hints that it’s no longer a priority.
“…in the meantime, I think if there was a big push to implement fediverse, we would just do it on the Tumblr code base,” he said."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/automattic-puts-tumblr-migration-to-wordpress-on-hold/
Matt Mullenweg Settles Caregiver Lawsuits Days Before Trial
> In the same post, Mullenweg also advised other wealthy founders in similar situations to “Never settle. It just creates an incentive for more people to make stuff up. Even if it’s messy, fight the claims in court as I am doing.” The post has since been taken down.
https://www.therepository.email/matt-mullenweg-settles-caregiver-lawsuits-days-before-trial
The company behind #Wordpress, #Automattic, is getting increasingly aligned.
The employee base now consist of "Mullenweg’s strongest supporters, and people who couldn’t afford to risk leaving their jobs", neither of which will contradict #Mullenweg.
Apparently recently, Automattic has been adding watermarking to the background in internal communications systems. The result will be that those afraid of leaving will be even more compliant. What a work culture.
https://www.404media.co/automattic-wordpress-p2-watermark-leakers/
Mullenweg fires people to make room for AI slop, not surprising at all.
https://www.theverge.com/news/645993/wordpress-com-is-offering-a-new-ai-site-builder
🙄 Mullenweg Considers Delaying WordPress Releases Through 2027
｢ A WordPress Slack chat shows that Matt Mullenweg is considering limiting future WordPress releases to just one per year from now through 2027 and insists that the only way to get Automattic to contribute more is to pressure WP Engine to drop their lawsuit. One WordPress developer who read that message characterized it as blackmail ｣
The dangers of microdosing
｢ Mullenweg not only intends to stay, he’s also thinking about how he plans to manage succession planning. He doesn’t want to pass on what he helped build to a “committee,” but rather to another CEO who will continue to act as a steward to the WordPress community ｣
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