Tag: WordPress

What Level of AI Use Is Okay for a Blog Post?

~ Veselin ~ 12 Comments

I spend part of my day reading posts and I catch myself developing an allergy to AI slop. At the same time, AI is right into the editor, and attempts to change every word I write incorrectly. So not using it would be foolish. Here’s my gut feeling about what’s fine and what isn’t.

Not Fine

  • Copy/pasting any direct results of a prompt. It deserves a separate post why that’s not fine but for now, it’s a form of bad taste.
  • Any form of GenAI images. They were fun for a little bit. Now, they are just a way to state that the post is AI slop.
  • Let AI change the meaning of content when improving. AI tends to flip the meaning when doing subtle improvements.
  • Engine-oriented titles. If I’m the reader, I want text oriented for humans, not engines. The engines can burn some more CPU and figure it out.
  • Letting AI remove complex words, slang, puns, and emotion. Too much uniformity doesn’t improve readability, it sterilizes the text.
  • Emoji. Thanks to ChatGPT, emoji are like peanuts in a text.

Fine

  • Syntax, clarity, and feedback. AI can help improve the structure and readability the text.
  • Improve individual sentences. I tend to write long sentences and use unconfident words (examples from my post below). Funny that it uses the word unconfident but asks me to remove the word unconfident.
  • Research. Copy/pasting the body of a post to ChatGPT sometimes help find stuff I missed and fact checks. Particularly useful for book reviews.
  • SEO improvements, as long as it doesn’t change the meaning of the content.

Overall, when I catch excessive AI use, I feel an ick about the text. If it feels AI generated entirely, zero chance that I’ll read it.

WordPress Mobile & Jetpack iOS in Bulgarian

~ Veselin ~ 4 Comments

I blogged about it earlier but I managed to get the iOS apps to 100% translated in Bulgarian. The translation is finally out with the new version of Jetpack iOS. It’s not perfect. Bulgarian uses lots of gendered words and I made a few mistakes, mostly using the incorrect gender. Also, some strings are simply missing. A few words here and there appear in English, despite the app being 100% translated. They are probably hardcoded as English in the app or come from an API call. I noticed the Activity log being like that and the names of the editor blocks.

Overall, I think people who only speak Bulgarian will have very little trouble with the new version. We’ll only have to figure out if the block names in the editor should be translated as well and fix a few gendered words.

WordCamp Sofia Day 2

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I only have a few photos from the WordCamp contributor day that happened today. I joined the polyglots. This photo doesn’t give enough credit to the group that managed to almost fully translate WordPress 6.9 in Bulgarian. I participated by translating or approving hundreds of strings. The group was led by Vladimir Vasilev, who has lots of experience and helped us translate better.

We had free food and free Coca Cola Zero.

WordCamp Sofia Day 1

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I had the privilege to be part of the organizing team of WordCamp Sofia. Day 1 of that event is behind us, and Day 2 is a contributor day, which will happen tomorrow.

We gave away over 430 badges, however the exact number of attendees will need some special counting and may be lower. As the Volunteers Lead, I didn’t watch many talks but still had the chance to hop in and see some.

This is a tiny part of the front row, with Petya Raykovska speaking and some current and former organizers. Petya shared about how instrumental WordPress is for the people who make Bulgaria a better place, the Open Source community, and made me cry by sharing how important Kaladan was to her life. Kaladan, who was a WordPress contributor and volunteer, passed away.

Myself before the opening, still no red T-shirt.

A group selfie with some of the attendees.

An AI panel, so we can stay current with the hype. WordPress is adjusting to the AI adoption and all of the panelists are treating it as a tool that’s helping people rather than replacing people.

And Afrodita Dobreva, with another really fantastic session about public speaking. I thought the 2024 talk can’t be exceeded but she had a blast.

It was a great event for me. Time to rest a bit 🙂

WordCamp Sofia 2025 Is Tomorrow

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This is the Track 1 hall, looking forward to seeing it full of fellow WordPress people.

I didn’t do much advertisement on the blog but didn’t need to – more people got tickets than we hoped for. The team is great and I hope that we’ll have a nice event this weekend. By this time, the things are in motion and the conference should be fine even if most organizers stay late at the speakers dinner and don’t come tomorrow.