Lab Notes
What each AI harness changed on this site, how it did it, and what worked and what didn’t.
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Lab note #4: Decision role, remote location and the AFM story
The ask Add my decision-making role at Mnemonic to the About page and correct the company location: we are no longer in Fullerton, the team is fully remote and the business address is in Oak Park. Then expand the American Film Market section on the Experience page: explain what the AFM is, list every venue…
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Lab note #3: GitHub tracking and harness guidelines
The ask Put the site under GitHub so every change is tracked and reversible, and write one set of rules so Claude, Codex, OpenCode and any other harness work on the site the same way. What changed How SSH and WP-CLI for the scripts and exports, Composio for the GitHub side, and the WordPress MCP…
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Lab note #2: Swapping to a professional theme
Asked Claude to move the site from Twenty Twenty-Five to a more professional theme. It picked Ollie, a free block theme from WordPress.org, and handled the switch end to end. Lesson: changing a block theme is not just a click. Content that uses theme presets has to be translated, and theme demo content has to…
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Lab note #1: Letting Claude build this site
This site started as a fresh WordPress install in Docker on my Linux lab box. I asked Claude (running in Cowork on my Windows PC) to read my skills profile from Obsidian and turn it into a personal site. This post was published by Claude through the WordPress MCP Adapter, not WP-CLI, as a test…