Talk Devy to Me: AI design partner Miles with Andy Peatling

Join me for this episode of Talk Devy To Me as we dive into Miles, an AI design partner for WordPress built by my guest Andy Peatling. Miles lets you build a fully custom block-based design in minutes and refine it collaboratively with AI — no templates, no page builders, no shortcuts. We'll explore how Andy built Miles, what it means for the future of WordPress design, and then put it through its paces with a couple of designs. 0:00 Intro — meet Andy Peatling & what is Miles? 2:00 Why build Miles? WordPress, AI, and not getting left behind 5:00 Avoiding the hot takes: AI won't kill WordPress 6:30 First build: ditch the giant prompt, just have a conversation 13:00 Conversational onboarding — building the hockey team site brief 20:00 Behind the scenes: parallel ideation & picking a design direction 23:00 Iterating on colors, accessibility, and WCAG contrast 36:30 Watching the theme generate — templates, blocks, single-page focus 40:00 Token costs, credits, and the looming AI pricing reckoning 46:00 It works! Exporting to Playground, Studio, and any host 56:00 Why "Miles"? The WordPress 1.0 / Miles Davis throwback 57:00 Building an AI tool with AI — vibe coding, security & doing it right 1:04:00 The real play: a Claude Code skill + CLI to fit dev workflows 1:09:00 Model choice, open source, and benchmarking the frontier 1:16:00 Second build: the Badge Press WordCamp lanyard site 1:42:00 Avoiding the "AI look" & what's next — multi-page support Connect:   / ryanwelchercodes     / ryanwelcher     / ryanwelcher   https://bsky.app/profile/ryanwelcher.com Projects: 👉 Advanced Query Loop plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/advance... 👉 WordPress Snippets VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/... 👉 WordPress Playground markdown editor: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/... Credits: Stream-Safe Metal playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MI... #wordpress #wordpresstutorial #coding #customblocks #javascript #php #gutenberg #livestream