Spend an hour with Brent Toderash and you realize he’s the guy quietly holding a very complicated system together with clear thinking and a lot of diagrams even as he tells you that he’s not a very technical person.
Brent came to WordPress through open source first. He started with Linux in the ’90s, free software, a Commodore PET he maxed out in high school. That ordering shapes how he sees everything, including his current work steering the FAIR project — which, he’ll gently correct you, isn’t really a WordPress thing at all. It’s about the software supply chain, and he thinks it could become the gold standard for how open source distributes itself.
We dug deep into AI, and Brent’s take is refreshingly grounded: it’s something you leverage, not something you delegate to. If you don’t understand the task, you can’t write the prompt. His best reality check on the hype? An AI-assisted project estimate came back about 40% cheaper than the old way — a lot less than the breathless version would have you believe. Useful. Not magic.
It’s a warm, thoughtful conversation about sharing and systems. Give it a listen, and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
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