KI und WordPress WP Meetup Hamburg #140

Chapter 4

I am not a developer

The most interesting evidence tonight is not on YouTube.

  • No PHP, no Python, no degree — and around thirty tools of my own.
  • I did not learn to program. I learned to describe, and to check.
  • Checking only comes with years. Here, experience is an advantage.
  • It grew over months. And plenty of it was thrown away again.
  • Every tool is a promise: maintenance, documentation, understanding.

If I can do this, the line is not where you think it is.

What came of it

It started with a search across my own notes. By now it is a loop that checks itself.

  • A search across everything I own

    Where it began: full-text search over everything I have ever written down. The AI does not have to guess how my shop works — it can look it up. That alone changed more than any cleverer model did.

  • The rules live in the file itself

    Every file carries a marker at the top: what it belongs to, which contract governs it, how it must be written. Whoever opens it — me or an AI — knows in the first paragraph what is allowed here. Rules kept somewhere else do not get read.

  • Tools that bring knowledge in

    Download websites, strip the content out of the layout, make code searchable, read PDFs. Around two dozen of them by now. None of them is clever — they only make sure there is something to look up.

  • One fact, one place, one checker

    A fact is written in exactly one place. Generators distribute it where it is needed, and check scripts recompute it and complain when a copy disagrees. That is the part nobody sees, and the reason it still fits together two years later.