Track: AI
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From Crawlers to Customers: WordPress and the Rise of AI Buyers
Every few years, something new shows up at your WordPress site that isn’t a person. Search engines, mobile browsers, social platforms — each time, the ecosystem adapted. But those were one-way streets: your site pushed content out to be indexed or previewed, and that was the end of the conversation. Agentic commerce flips the script.…
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Own Your Audience: How The Ankler Escaped Substack and Took Back Control
People say that publishers are fleeing WordPress for Substack. Don’t believe the hype. The Ankler intentionally left Substack, which is a case worth studying. With 15 newsletters, over 130,000 email subscribers, and 10,000 paying members, The Ankler is one of Hollywood’s most respected insider publications. When platform constraints started limiting their editorial and business ambitions,…
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The Elephant in the (Server) Room: Honest Conversations About AI, Identity, and the Future of Our Work
AI is changing how we work faster than we can process it. For many engineers, that comes with questions we haven’t quite found the words for yet: What does this mean for my skills? My career? My identity as someone who builds things This session isn’t a technical deep-dive and it doesn’t come with answers.…