I was watching Hell’s Kitchen last night and something clicked.
Watch how a head chef actually works. Gordon makes the menu, develops the recipes, and directs the kitchen. His sous chefs, his brigade, and his wait staff are the ones doing the physical work. But nobody questions who’s responsible for the experience. The vision, the standards, the taste, the judgment, that’s all Gordon.
It made me think about how I work with AI, both in conversation and in agentic workflows.
The “you just typed a prompt” crowd would look at that kitchen and say the cooks made the food. Which is technically true and completely misses the point.
A prompt isn’t a magic incantation. It’s the visible tip of everything behind it: taste, domain knowledge, the ability to recognise when something is wrong, the vision of what you’re actually trying to make, and the experience to know the difference between good and good enough. Gordon doesn’t pick up a knife much on that show. But the food doesn’t make itself.
What I’ve found working with AI is that it isn’t a mechanical arm. It’s genuinely collaborative. There’s a real back and forth happening. I supply the why behind everything. The AI brings pattern recognition, speed, and tireless iteration. But I’m the one directing the kitchen.
The accountability still sits with me, which is exactly why the creative ownership sits with me too.
Appropriately enough, I’m writing this in a new tool I stumbled on this morning:
, a browser-based WordPress environment that runs entirely in your browser without signing up, setting up a hosting plan, or registering a domain. It’s built on WordPress Playground, and all data stays local and private, never uploaded to any server.
The sites are private by default, not accessible from the public internet. As the official announcement puts it, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they’re ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.
It comes with an App Catalog out of the box. That includes a Personal CRM, Personal RSS Reader, bookmarking tool, and an AI Workspace. The AI assistant can modify plugins, create new ones, or query data stored in your WordPress, and can even function as a personal knowledge base over time.
Storage starts at around 100MB per device, and each device maintains its own separate installation. So it’s not a replacement for a hosted site, but as a private thinking space, a drafting environment, and a personal knowledge base that never leaves your machine, it fits neatly into how I already work.
A browser-local WordPress. No hosting. No domain. No account. Just a workspace that lives where you do.
Gordon would probably find a way to complain about the storage limit. But the kitchen itself is pretty impressive.