ANCIENT.GEEKERY

// The Autopsy

Cause of
death.

35 dispatches on the WordPress decline and the AI-native exit. No nostalgia. No saviour roadmap. Sorted newest first because the diagnosis keeps getting worse.

The Dispatches.

[WP AUTOPSY]10 MIN

wp2shell: WordPress Handed Attackers The Keys, Then Forced You To Change The Locks

A pre-authentication remote code execution chain in WordPress Core. No login. No plugin. No misconfiguration. Just a stock install answering the request. WordPress cared enough to override your auto-update settings. Ask yourself why.

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[AI EXIT]9 MIN

Use ChatGPT to Prompt Lovable: A Field Guide for People Who Don't Know What They're Doing

Lovable is not a mind reader. It is a spec executor. The cheapest way to use it is to do your messy thinking in a cheap external LLM first, then paste a tightened prompt into Lovable. Here is how to stop donating credits to vagueness.

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[PIVOT MEMO]9 MIN

You Built A Site For A Mate. Now You Sell Websites. Congratulations, You Are A Hazard.

The soloprenuer gold rush is on. Everyone with a Figma trial and a weekend is suddenly a 'web designer.' The problem is not the enthusiasm. The problem is that the client's mortgage is riding on the 90% of the job you didn't know existed.

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[WP AUTOPSY]7 MIN

If WordPress Was a Meal, What Would It Be?

It starts as a light, zesty salad. Crisp, intentional, refreshing. Six months later it's an all-you-can-eat buffet with extra fries, mystery sausages, and a dessert trolley nobody ordered.

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[WP AUTOPSY]8 MIN

Just One More Plugin: The WordPress Habit That Ate Your Site

Every WordPress site dies the same way: one innocuous plugin at a time. Dozens of scripts, a friendly ping to a server in Shenzhen, and enough orphaned database rows to keep a digital archaeologist in funding for a decade.

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[PIVOT MEMO]7 MIN

Stop Building Unicorns. Start Killing Subscriptions.

Most 'Lovable is too expensive' whining is a scoping problem in a pricing costume. The highest-yield use of AI app builders is boring: stop paying rent to SaaS vendors for features you never touch.

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[WP AUTOPSY]15 MIN

The Fall Of A Titan: Elementor's 2026 Bloodbath And The Desperate Pivot To Sticklight

For nearly a decade Elementor was the default drag-and-drop layer for WordPress, powering roughly one in seven websites on the internet. In June 2026 it fired a third of its workforce, blamed AI in the press, and quietly shipped a Lovable clone called Sticklight. This is what actually happened, why the AI excuse is a smokescreen for years of self-inflicted damage, and why a company that spent a decade failing to decide who its customer was should not be surprised when that customer finally leaves.

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[DEAD STACK]14 MIN

Extinction Rebellion: The Fall Of The Dev

A very specific kind of full-stack developer is having a very bad decade. You have met him. He haunts the Lovable subreddit, the Bolt Discord, the v0 community threads, the Cursor forums, the Replit help channels. His job is to arrive under any post written by a non-technical founder shipping a working app and explain, at length, why that app is a smoking crater waiting to happen. This is a field guide to the dinosaur dev, why he is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt, and why almost none of it survives contact with reality.

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[AI EXIT]8 MIN

Lovable's 5 Free Daily Credits: A Practical Guide To Getting Real Value

Every Lovable user gets five free build credits every single day. On the Free plan they cap at thirty per month. On paid plans they stack uncapped on top of your monthly allowance. Here is exactly what those credits buy you, who they are best for, how to squeeze the most out of them, and what they are worth in actual money.

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