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Usage stats - still on the up. ~37 millions sites up from ~32 million a year before https://trends.builtwith.com/cms/WordPress

I had a friend who used it for promoting businesses and one the main advantages was it wasn't "dynamic, fully personalised" which meant you could use standard plugins, swap in different programmers who knew how it worked and so on.

WordPress is dynamic and incredibly customizable. You could vibe code a huge variety of web applications onto WordPress. Not saying that’s a good idea. But WordPress is successful exactly because it’s dynamic and highly personalizable. So your comment makes no sense.

What is "compounding" software?

Perhaps like a pharmacy that mixes their own medications from more basic ingredients and is known as a “compounding pharmacy”.

Probably just means everyone has to vibe code their own software.

Maybe compounding interest on all the technical debt generated by the LLMs?

Sure buddy. Wake me up when it actually happens. What good is being able to vibe code all your software if you have to maintain it all yourself after? On Anthropic's token quota no less?

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