Who gets the credit when someone else’s idea takes off? On This Week in WordPress 351, between talk of security backports and Tammie Lister’s experiments with Telex, I said I was adoring the ideas Nick was putting forward, and I wanted to be sure he got the credit for them. Nathan Wrigleycolleague also read my bio, seven string electric violin included.
🎙️ Episode details
- Show: This Week in WordPress 351, from WP Builds
- Host: Nathan Wrigley
- Panel: Michelle Frechettecolleague, Tim Nashcolleague and me, Courtney Robertson
- Live: Monday, October 6, 2025. The podcast followed on October 7.
- Topics: credit for ideas, prompts as part of AI work, security backports, and a violin
- Show notes: This Week in WordPress 351 on WP Builds, with news links and a transcript
The captions are YouTube’s automatic captions, cleaned for repeated lines and names but not checked against the audio. WP Builds also publishes a full transcript on the show notes page.
🧰 Prompts, ideas and credit as part of the work
Tammie had been building blocks with Telex, Automattic’s AI block experiment. I said I’d love to see the prompts that led to each project. Storing the prompt alongside the block would help others learn how she framed the request.
🎻 And yes, the violin
Nathan’s introduction mentioned my seven string electric violin, and the panel asked for a performance. Not yet, I said. Someone in our community had performed at CloudFest Europe, so there’s precedent.
🧪 What can you take from this talk on credit for ideas?
- AI builders: keep the prompt with the output, so others can learn and credit the work.
- Community members: when an idea spreads, name who had it.
Also, more conversations like this one live in my podcast and speaking archive.
🗓️ Archival note
This panel streamed live on October 6, 2025, and WP Builds published it the next day; the show notes misspell my name in the credits. I added this post on November 9, 2026, from the publisher’s automated transcript, which has few clear lines from me, so this post stays short. I reviewed the transcript, not the recording.