What if Matt had joined Google instead of starting WordPress? The internet might have felt a little less like ours. In his recent post, Matt mentioned “How the internet might have turned out differently if I had taken that job, as my mom wanted me to (because they offered free food).” Funny line. But also wild to think about.

I don't vibe code. You know what I mean by vibe coding? That approach where you throw prompts at an AI, get code back, and ship it without caring about what's actually under the hood. It's the "move fast and ship" mentality taken to an extreme. That's not me. I build with Claude Code every day, but I care about what's being built.

Nobody tells you that AI-augmented coding makes implementation skills abundant and strategic thinking priceless.

I used to kill ideas before they had a real chance. Every spark of curiosity met the same mental gate: Is this worth my time? What's the opportunity cost? Can I even do this? The auditor in my head would run the numbers and most ideas would die right there. Then something shifted. Not because AI models got smarter, but because the marginal cost of curiosity drops close to zero.