Track: AI (North 120A)

  • Your First AI-Only Team: Build It, Brief It, and Put It to Work

    You don’t use AI to help your team. You build a team that happens to be AI. That shift — from AI as a tool to AI as a workforce — changes everything: how you structure work, how you delegate, how you quality-check, and what you actually need to show up for yourself. This workshop…

  • Agents Need Good Tools Too: Designing an Editorial Experience for Humans and AI Alike

    We spend a lot of effort making the editorial experience good for humans — clear blocks, sensible constraints, guardrails that keep content on-brand. It turns out those same rules are exactly what an AI agent needs to publish well. This talk walks through the key tenets of a strong editorial experience in WordPress with Gutenberg,…

  • Parenting Claude: Guardrails for AI-Assisted Development

    LLMs are here and they’ve already disrupted software development at every level. Revolutions are messy, fraught with challenges, risks and disruption as the status quo evolves to make room for new ideas. Large language models can dramatically improve productivity, but they also confidently output plausible garbage. This session is about getting the speed without surrendering…

  • Democratizing the Theme Directory: Building Block-Ready Themes with WP Rig & AI

    The standard toolkit for custom WordPress theme development is undergoing a generational shift. Legacy bundlers, bulky frameworks, and guessing games with AI code completion are being replaced by lightweight execution environments, composable architectures, and rigid, deterministic code scaffolding. In this immersive, hands-on workshop, developers will dive into the future of theme development using WP Rig,…