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> To replace the board, Mullenweg leveraged his voting shares — he controls 84% of the vote

Then what can any board ever do?

Absolutely nothing. Too bad he revealed who he really is and turned out to be not a good dude. And yet his company runs the majority of his niche of the web. Ugh.

I think all this drama shows that Automattic is not going to last as far as their future business prospects.

I can’t think of a good reason to use Wordpress in a world where AI can whip up a completely custom site in minutes.

And if we think about things like “oh well websites AI creates aren’t that good,” well, that’s as of right now, which is the worst it’ll ever be moving forward.

This is also considering the fact that Wordpress is mostly a good option due to the ecosystem and relatively low cost. It’s not particularly easy to use or “good” in a lot of other measures.

AI websites don't even need to be great.

They just need to be better than the average Wordpress site to beat Wordpress, which shouldn't be too hard.

I’ve set two small businesses up on Claude design and GitHub pages (though they don’t need to know about git or GitHub).

I tried Wordpress. I don’t know how most people use their admin interface.

Write little notes about how cool and smart Matt is, carve a heart shape with MM + WP in it on the trunk of a mighty oak, take a picture of him to their hair dressers, nuru massage

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