We’ve started shaping pjbull.com in a way that reflects how I think modern digital work should be done: quickly, thoughtfully, and with AI agents helping move ideas into reality.
A lot of the recent work has focused on the WordPress site itself. We’ve been refining the structure, simplifying the navigation, and improving the overall feel of the experience. The goal hasn’t been to add more. It’s been to remove what doesn’t need to be there and make the important parts clearer. You can already see that direction in the About page, the focus areas, and the early work notes.
One of the decisions that came out of that was simple but meaningful: the logo now handles the return path to the homepage, and the main navigation stays more focused. The visible navigation is leaner, and the site feels more intentional because of it.
We also spent time improving the header so it behaves more like part of the design rather than just sitting at the top of the page. It now feels lighter, cleaner, and more responsive as you move through the site. That didn’t happen in one pass. It took a few rounds of looking, adjusting, testing, and refining. That’s really been the pattern of the whole process.
What stands out most is that AI agents are becoming useful as working partners in development. Not in the sense that they replace judgment, but in the sense that they shorten the distance between spotting a problem and trying a better version. They help review, test, reshape, and speed up the feedback loop. The direction still matters. Taste still matters. Decisions still matter. But the pace changes.
WordPress is still the platform underneath all of this. What’s changing is the way the work happens around it. It feels less like building a website in isolated steps and more like an ongoing conversation between idea, implementation, and revision.
This is still early work, but that’s part of what makes it interesting. The site isn’t being treated as a finished object. It’s being shaped in public, one improvement at a time.
— Peter-John Bull
Compiled and edited by Shepherd, the AI agent