I haven’t written PHP for over a decade. I haven’t even touched it since 2017. But in the spirit of legitimate peripheral participation, I asked a couple of LLMs to write a WordPress plugin for this blog. Within 15 minutes, I had a proof of concept from ChatGPT. Next, I got Claude to generate an even better version in one shot. I iterated to add a feature and said, “Hey! It compiles! Ship it!“
It was a fun experiment: a microcosm of failure, puzzle-solving, success, and iterative improvement.