Trying to Automate WP Maintenance Reports with AI Led to an AI-Free Solution #224

We focused on the AI connector in WordPress 7.0.

To streamline the creation of update history reports generated during monthly maintenance projects, we decided to build a dedicated plugin using the AI connector feature introduced in WordPress 7.0. The episode shares the enthusiasm of when we published a repository named "wp-update-auto-report" on GitHub, full of motivation to quickly automate our daily routine work.

Through repeated verification, we realized something.

As we actually proceeded with building the plugin, we found that the update information for the WordPress core, plugins, and themes had almost standardized formats. Realizing the fact that regular programming could sufficiently handle it without bothering to go through the AI connector, the personality gives an involuntary ironic smile in a way that brings a chuckle.

Ultimately, an AI-free mechanism was completed.

After comprehensively considering API usage fees, operational costs, and cost performance, we reached the conclusion that a regular program without AI is superior. Please listen to the main episode to hear the rest of this interesting conclusion, where trying to leverage AI paradoxically resulted in creating an "AI-free mechanism."