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AI Agents Are Living Through Their Five-Minute WordPress Install Moment

Ben Thompson's memory of a WordPress install that took far longer than five minutes is a map of where AI agents sit today. Setup friction filters users, the plumbing is turning boring, and the value is moving to whoever owns the relationship.

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Oct 26, 2026Verified

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Your Smart Home Is Now Worth Automating: Why Agents Just Flipped the Math

Reverse-engineering your devices was always possible, just never worth it. Coding agents inverted that ROI calculation, and a whole category of automation you'd given up on is suddenly practical to delegate.

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Jul 22, 2026Verified