AI Coding Assistants Compared for PHP and WordPress Work
General-purpose IDE agents versus WordPress-specific snippet tools for PHP and WordPress development, and how to pick between them for a real task.
Practical programming and artificial intelligence guides for developers and coding learners.
General-purpose IDE agents versus WordPress-specific snippet tools for PHP and WordPress development, and how to pick between them for a real task.
How to keep an AI coding agent away from config files, secrets and lockfiles, what an ignore file actually guarantees, and what it does…
A sitemap can open normally in your browser, return HTTP 200, pass XML validation, and still show “Couldn’t fetch” in Google Search Console. That…
How to phrase a coding request so the AI's output is a small, checkable diff instead of an impressive one you cannot verify in…
AI-generated code can carry copyleft obligations with no attribution signal at all. What GPL contamination means and how to realistically check for it.
The current US position on AI-generated code copyright, why creative input matters, and why this is not the same answer everywhere. Not legal advice.
A green test suite does not mean correct behavior. Why AI-written tests miss edge cases, and what actually catches the bug they didn't.
Why an AI assistant keeps ignoring your conventions, what to actually feed it as context, and the drift problem that shows up months later.
AI assistants read your whole workspace, .env files included. Here is what to exclude, what to rotate, and how to tell if a key…
A short, ordered checklist for reviewing AI-generated code before it merges, from dependency checks to actually running the feature.