{"id":4646,"date":"2026-07-10T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=4646"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:56:09","slug":"chris-reynolds","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/us.wordcamp.org\/2026\/speaker\/chris-reynolds\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Reynolds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris is a Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon, where they help bridge the gap between WordPress and Drupal engineers and Pantheon\u2019s developer tools. They have a background in development, including tenures at top WordPress agencies like Human Made and WebDevStudios. Chris maintains open source plugins on GitHub and WordPress.org, has authored training courses for Pluralsight, and has been an active part of the WordPress community since 2011. 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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&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris is a Senior Developer Advocate at Pantheon, where they help bridge the gap between WordPress and Drupal engineers and Pantheon\u2019s developer tools. They have a background in development, including tenures at top WordPress agencies like Human Made and WebDevStudios. 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