Tag: Claude
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Automating WordPress Drudgery with Claude
This post – and admittedly my use of AI in general – is a bit of a late bloomer, but I’m hoping that someone somewhere will find it useful or inspiring. To back up a bit, here is some context about the current state of AI in Spring 2026: I think this stat probably sums up my industry the best: 90% of developers regularly use at least one AI tool at work I’ve been using AI at Arista for almost a year now: first Augment and now Claude. My team hasn’t gone too deep with agents yet, but it’s becoming…
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Here We Go Again: A Website Overhaul Story
Thirteen years ago, I started a blog in preparation for leaving my job and taking some time off to travel and explore. Gentleman of Leisure, Student of Life is actually still alive today, and I suppose will continue to exist for as long as Google wants to keep Blogger on life support. My very first post gives a bit of context and outlines my hopes for what writing could accomplish. Four years (and many adventures) later, I relaunched that blog as a standalone, WordPress-powered website that I controlled myself. I gave it a brief mention in my 2016 year-end wrap-up,…
