Courtney Robertson has been in the WordPress community since 2009, when she got her start volunteering to hand out name badges at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic after missing out on getting a ticket. These days she’s a Developer Advocate at GoDaddy — a role she describes as a “dotted line,” connecting the engineering side of hosting infrastructure to the open source WordPress project she’s contributed to for over fifteen years.
In this episode, Courtney walks through what DevRel actually looks like from inside a major hosting company: coordinating load tests for WordPress’ new real time collaborative editing feature, filing meta tickets, attending demos, and quietly flagging to engineering teams that the upcoming command palette might break half the plugins already loading things into the admin bar.
We also dig into AI. Courtney has some grounded takes; she’s vibe-coded WordPress plugins with Claude Code, built a self-hosted open source stack, and suggests how to take Juliette Reinders Folmer’s open source licensing concerns seriously and factor them into how you write prompts.
Also: she had Claude running in another tab during the interview. Same, tbh. Catch the episode here and subscribe so you don’t miss another one.
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