Bud Kraus will happily tell you he might be the oldest person in WordPress — he once tried the line on Matt Mullenweg, who told him he’s “getting there.” But the fun of this conversation isn’t the age jokes; it’s how much genuine curiosity he still runs on.
We trace the whole arc: teaching HTML and WordPress to New Yorkers lined up out the door, the Grand Central lunch where a client basically dared him to learn WordPress, and an Uber ride out of WordCamp US where his podcast Seriously, BUD? arrived fully formed. There’s a glorious tangent about teleporters becoming the airports of the future (mind the flies), and a thoughtful take on AI making him “dumber and smarter” at the same time.
The thread running through all of it: as AI eats more of the work, the one thing it can’t reproduce is you. Bud’s answer to the anxiety is to reinvent yourself and bring authentic human value — which, conveniently, is exactly what his show is built on.
He also doesn’t pull punches on where WordPress has lost its way.
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