No shade to the creators as I'm sure the tool is great but if I didn't know better I'd say this seems like an astroturfed effort by WordPress to stay relevant.
Existing AI tools alongside other open-source builders (Puck for React, Primo for Svelte, etc.) equals all the good things about WordPress's "WYSIWYG-ness" minus all the unnecessary bloat that's piled up over the years.
fat (Jacob Thornton) has a great metaphor that makes this simple to understand. Cute puppy dog syndrome.
Someone adopts a cute puppy. A bunch of people like playing with it and feeding it. It gets really big like Clifford. More and more people want to play with it. Not enough of them want to put in the work to feed it anymore. The person who adopted it gets burnt out trying to do so.
We’re incentivized to take as much and give as little as we can get away with (companies especially) “because profit.” If you’re like “but socialism is worse!!1!” just know that you can either parrot that line or fix the problem but not both.
This is a fantastic piece. If you find yourself thinking “okay, so the brain is different — now what? What should I actually do to learn better?” I wrote about this last year. Pardon the clickbaity title, HackerNoon changed it up on me. https://hackernoon.com/the-four-rs-how-to-become-a-good-prog...
I'd be interested in discussing this with you - we think alike, although, having background in psychology too, I was at first sceptical of your use of terms like "Rearranging". But I like your summary and how you orient it to the programming domain but also reference examples of good learning app techniques.
I am working on an app that makes many decisions in this area, and is truly trying to attempt the psychology of learning ethically to university studying (including parts of computer science you can learn without actually "doing" the coding etc). I have a few ideas and new learning user flows I would love to get your feedback on as well as have a wider discussion and nerd out a bit on psychology studies I think you'll find revealing, would you be up to talk?
As a quick peak: My own thesis on student learning broadly begins with three e's: "Effectiveness, Enjoyment(or motivation), and Environment", as I believe the first two are necessary, and the third one an augmentation, as properties of effective learning systems for people. This is based on combining my psychology knowledge (mostly the first and last two E's) with my experience volunteering and being a TA and hearing from students who through 90% of the semester struggle with the middle e - Enjoyment - more than others, or to the point where it prevents applying the others(not motivated to use effective techniques, not motivated to go to the library when procrastinating, etc) correctly. I am super interested in combining this with the teachers view and how they work too (e.g. curriculum design, personalised tutoring)
Existing AI tools alongside other open-source builders (Puck for React, Primo for Svelte, etc.) equals all the good things about WordPress's "WYSIWYG-ness" minus all the unnecessary bloat that's piled up over the years.