EP440 - Year in review and forward at 2023

<p><a href= "https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep440-year-in-review-and-forward-at-2023/"> Show notes and transcript</a></p> <p>On this episode of WPwatercooler lots of topics were discussed looking back at 2022 and what's to come in 2023. Topics include the use of artificial intelligence in WordPress, Sé and crew launching the <a href="https://www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">WP Community Collective</a>, the possibility of a rewrite of the Media Library, the implementation of collaborative editing in WordPress, and the future of the WordPress mobile app.</p> <p>Sé Reed asked the panel what is their word for tech in the new year.</p> <ul> <li>Sé mentioned <strong>impact</strong> which means to her smart operating in terms of working on things that have "the most bang for your buck"</li> <li>Jason Tucker's word is <strong>cloud</strong>, at his work he's looking to move to more cloud services and personally wants to try to use more cloud automation services in his day-to-day life.</li> <li>Jason Cosper is <strong>carry on</strong>. He wants to look further into ownership and control over the things he creates and the use of certain platforms, such as Twitter. not having a focus on making money, but rather wanting to have control over the distribution and use of the things he creates. Cosper wants to be less dependent on someone else's infrastructure, owning his own part of a social media platform such as sites that are federated like Mastodon.</li> </ul> <p>Both Jasons would love to work on their show <a href= "https://wpwatercooler.com/thequery">The Query</a> and get that off the ground soon.</p> <p>The discussion turned to the present and future and Sé began discussing her use of an artificial intelligence tool called Chat GPT for various tasks, such as generating content for websites, optimizing code, and writing blog posts. She mentioned that Cosper should use the tool to rewrite his speaker bio. Sé has used it to rewrite code, and express excitement about using