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2. each batch upload must be below 200MB of so I had to create 75 JSONL files (multiple JSON objects per line) for 42k images resized to 1536px on the long edge.

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1. there is an org-level cap of 5M enqueued tokens per model so you need to throttle the uploads to stay below that. Not sure why they don't take care of that internally;

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The OpenAI batch API is pretty cool at 50% of the cost. Great for large scale tasks such as captioning 42k images with gpt-5-mini. Here is what I learned:

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Total cost: $30 for both captions (gpt-5-mini) and embeddings (text-embedding-3-large with 3072 dimensions).

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Turns out the AI models that generate embedding vectors from images directly are BAD at capturing the image contents, so I had to first generate captions and then generate the embeddings for the captions instead.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/08/2026

During the weekend I built a contextual search tool for a photo library with 42k images across 2.8k galleries. The results are amazing!

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That's cool, thanks for sharing!

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/08/2026

The FAIR standard (created for WordPress and built on AT protocol) would be perfect for distributing agent plugins since it covers everything from versioning, signing, discovery and packaging. Now the Agent Plugin project is trying really hard to figure this out github.com/agentplugins...

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agentplugins agent-plugins-spec · Discussions

Explore the GitHub Discussions forum for agentplugins agent-plugins-spec. Discuss code, ask questions & collaborate with the developer community.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 17/08/2026

What do you think of these Claude system prompts? Sound a bit too verbose and as if AI was used to iterate on them which eventually flattens the intent and looses the nuance. platform.claude.com/docs/en/rele...

platform.claude.com

System Prompts

See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 10/08/2026

Trying out Agent Pilot WordPress plugin prototype to self-host host AI skills. Let's you manage and publish agent skills without having to figure out Git or GitHub.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 05/08/2026

What would be your preferred interface for creating agent skills in WordPress? a) all front-matter fields in the editor area (ACF-style), or b) all front-matter fields in the sidebar panel?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/08/2026

I really hope we eventually arrive at an open package standard for bundling these custom AI plugins that can be self-hosted and installed using any AI GUI harness. Currently all the nice AI things are mostly available to developers who can run CLI commands. See github.com/cloudflare/a...

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GitHub - cloudflare/agent-skills-discovery-rfc: A mechanism for discovering Agent Skills using the .well-known URI path prefix as specified in RFC 8615 for discovering Agent Skills.

A mechanism for discovering Agent Skills using the .well-known URI path prefix as specified in RFC 8615 for discovering Agent Skills. - cloudflare/agent-skills-discovery-rfc

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 04/08/2026

Thanks to the "Agent Skills Discovery via Well-Known URIs" RFC from Cloudflare we can have WordPress as the Skills CMS with the convenience of `npx skills add ...`

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/07/2026

Agent skills and instructions need a CMS so that teams can collaborate on these critical assets without having to learn git and cli tooling. WordPress is a CMS. Can we make it do this?

Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/07/2026

Check your AI tool memories (under ~/.codex/memories and ~/.claude/projects). I find that most of them are actually polluting the context and not helping.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/07/2026

We often overlook how WordPress was THE vibe coding of the previous decades. Now there are just way more options available.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 19/06/2026

the no-tool and no-rag approach of claude code feels to be wasting tokens and working through things slower. what's your experience? same model in cursor is way faster and productive.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 22/05/2026

The Jetpack monorepo is 767MB 🐡 Mostly because of the tracked build files (roughly 360MB) which are not even part of the current work tree.

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Would you trust AI to run this? Will it actually apply those single quotes when running it? It created the ~ directory itself during previous runs so it is trying to clean up.

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I first heard about this concept from Adam Jacob on the Changelog podcast covering his Swamp project changelog.com/friends/130

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Pull requests require that we trust the code offered for merging. Yes, we can ask AI to review the code but there is still a lot of risk associated with it. As humans we can reliably control only the inputs to the AI models which is the issue or feature request describing the desired outcomes.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 17/05/2026

Here is a crazy idea -- pull requests will get replaced by issues or feature requests as the primary way of contributing to open source projects.

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Appears that the site stylesheet does support dark mode but the body text is invisible.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 14/05/2026

@ianlandsman.com is right — now is the time to sell and market Solo. The features can wait. It needs eyeballs and traction on YouTubes and socials to get the escape velocity.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/04/2026

Funny how macOS search (both Finder and Spotlight) is so bad that I don’t even think of using it. Imagine how bad AI would do if it couldn’t search properly. Are there recent Mac apps that are trying to solve this?

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 21/04/2026

Somebody should unleash AI agents on the WP trac backlog, have it track all steering decisions and see where we land. We sure could get a core committer skill out this 😅

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/03/2026

A sidecar approach might work better but it would require polling for filesystem changes and parsing the cache files which do have the response headers in there.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/03/2026

Considered creating an Nginx module but there don't appear to be any hookable events when the cache files are written. The idea would be too keep an index of tags mapped to cache files on disk and have a route for invalidating by tags.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 29/03/2026

Spent the Saturday afternoon exploring ways to add surrogate-key (also known as cache tags) support for Nginx fastcgi cache which is otherwise great with state-while-revalidate support, etc.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 24/02/2026

The Connectors screen in WP 7.0 would really benefit from encrypted options unless we want to expose those API keys to anyone with access to wp-admin/options.php

Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/02/2026

The trick was to create 1 FPS videos with full audio so that it still has access to full video contents and audio but with ~5% of the file size. Worked great.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 23/02/2026

ChatGPT wouldn't do it, Claude wouldn't do it. Eventually tried Perplexity and it was able to generate notes with correct code snippets from my WordPress course videos. Amazing since it didn't have to invent anything -- just capture everything I said and include the relevant code snippets.

Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 20/02/2026

To enable it, add this configuration to .vscode/launch.json file.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 20/02/2026

WordPress block development with breakpoint debugging for JS is a life-changer! So is PHP breakpoints, to be honest. Instead of hunting for the correct file in the browser console, you just add breakpoints in VS Code and it automatically stops JS at that point to show you the full state.

Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 16/02/2026

When can we reasonably expect all macOS apps to use the correct squircle radius? I can't believe VSCode and Google Chrome are still different from the Finder or any of the built-in apps...

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/02/2026

Be sure to check out the included library of shortcuts and automations for inspiration. Here is the "Record Coding" automation that I built.

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Kaspars Dambis @kaspars.damb.is · 15/02/2026

I can't believe I'm discovering the Apple Shortcuts just now. In one click it can now get my computer ready for screen recording -- it opens VS Code, web browser + recording app, and resizes the windows to fit a specific aspect ratio. The app is bundled with every Mac and iPhone since 2021.