Russell Aaron WP Pro Support

Someone on X asked if WordPress plugins are dead. They’re not. But the car-lot way of selling them is, and buyers now have a new question: is this worth it, or can I build it myself?

A free CLI tool called RTK looked like it was saving me tokens for months. It wasn’t. Here’s the bug I found, the three hours it took to fix, and why nothing in your AI stack is set it and forget it.

I had a context file the whole time and still went in circles for weeks. The bug was one file doing two jobs. Here is how git caught it, and how it became my memory layer.