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title: "AI Is Changing WordPress Development. What Happens to Developers?"
description: "A Cloudways Prepathon discussion on how AI and modern WordPress tools are changing development, the skills developers need next, and where WordPress is going."
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author: "Miriam Schwab"
date_published: "2026-09-23T10:47:40+00:00"
date_modified: "2026-09-23T10:47:40+00:00"
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In this discussion we explored how AI and modern WordPress tools are changing development, the skills developers need to build next, and where the WordPress ecosystem is heading.