Dr. Robert Li

WordPress Evangelist & Tinkerer | AI Engineering & Strategy | Automation Mad Scientist | GTM Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure & Cybersecurity SME | Speaker | Ex-Founder | Currently WP Engine Principal Solutions Architect


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Agentic Disaggregation and the Cognitive Industrial Revolution

08 Feb 2026

Eight months after proposing the “New Information Architecture,” the thesis has accelerated beyond predictions. A single Anthropic legal plugin triggered USD285 billion in SaaS losses-the “SaaSpocalypse.” Software stocks are down over USD1 trillion in 2026. Three hypotheses: (1) software is...

Engram: A Critical Analysis of Conditional Memory as a Sparsity Axis - DeepSeek's Adaptation of Classic N-grams for Early Layer Feature Representation

19 Jan 2026

The Engram paper introduces conditional memory as a new sparsity axis for large language models, complementing the established paradigm of conditional computation (MoE). The central thesis is that Transformers lack a native knowledge lookup primitive, forcing them to simulate retrieval...

From Click to Citation: Part 2 - Building Teams for an Agentic Web

26 Oct 2025

LLM algorithmic limitations—”agreeable average” problem, catastrophic forgetting, “lost in the middle” phenomenon, lateral thinking constraints—are fundamental mathematical constraints in neural networks, not temporary bugs. Organizations exploiting these through specialized expertise in the long tail of LLM training distributions create defensible...

Emerging Practices in Team Building for an Agentic Internet

13 Oct 2025

LLM algorithmic limitations—”agreeable average” problem, catastrophic forgetting, “lost in the middle” phenomenon, lateral thinking constraints—are fundamental mathematical constraints in neural networks, not temporary bugs. Organizations exploiting these through specialized expertise in the long tail of LLM training distributions create defensible...

AI Citation Attention Patterns and User Discovery: A Meta-Analysis

24 Sep 2025

Users click AI citations at 1% vs 15% for traditional search—a 15:1 differential creating an “authority-traffic paradox” where sources gain credibility without generating website visits across 700 million weekly ChatGPT users (10% of global adults). Platform fragmentation concentrates power: 71%...

AI turning Digital Skills Into Tomorrow's Punch Cards

20 Sep 2025

The same technological displacement that eliminated punch card operators in 1979 now accelerates through AI, but targets knowledge work itself—creating unprecedented labor market polarization where value migrates from generalist skills to specialized expertise Research from Portugal and 28 EU countries...

Adapting Your WordPress Site to AI Sense-Making Compression: The Evolution from Distance to Meaning

05 Sep 2025

AI sense-making compression fundamentally transforms how users interact with web content, reducing cognitive steps between intention and outcome from multiple browser interactions to single conversational exchanges WordPress sites must evolve from document-centric architectures to knowledge objects that serve dual audiences:...

Technology Adoption Curves and Innovation S-Curves: The Maths Behind AI transformation

28 Jul 2025

Technology adoption follows predictable mathematical patterns across generations, with adoption speeds accelerating from telegraph (56 years to 50% penetration) through AI tools (3 years to 50% penetration), demonstrating consistent temporal compression in innovation cycles S-curve investment relationships operate through dynamic...

GTM Engineering, a Sales Imperative

27 Jul 2025

Sales productivity concerns intensify with representatives spending just 28-36% of time on actual selling activities while 72% handle administrative tasks, contributing to substantial economic losses of $1 trillion annually from sales-marketing misalignment GTM engineering develops as a specialized discipline combining...

The Rise of GTM Engineering

12 Jul 2025

Millennials and Gen Z now control 73% of B2B purchasing decisions, fundamentally rejecting relationship-based sales in favor of digital self-service experiences Traditional “Mad Men” era techniques—three-martini lunches, golf course deals, old-boy networks—show precipitous decline with 87% call avoidance rates and...

From Digital Transformation to AI Transformation: A Personal Guide

19 Jun 2025

LLMs break the historical connection between humans and information sources, becoming universal intermediaries that synthesize rather than merely retrieve information The textile industry’s mechanization parallels today’s AI revolution: skilled workers replaced by machine operators, with similar patterns of workforce consolidation...

The Evolution of Human-Internet Interaction: Toward a New Information Architecture

09 Jun 2025

We’re witnessing a fundamental shift from browser-based internet use to AI agent-mediated digital interaction. The “New Information Architecture” means that information is stored in semantic databases, transported via AI agents, and delivered through conversation rather than traditional websites. Market data...

What an Autonomous Agent-based Digital World means for us?

25 Apr 2025

The internet is shifting from human centred use to AI agents doing tasks for us. New design patterns and protocols from Anthropic and Google let these agents talk directly to websites and each other. This creates two parallel Internets: one...

Jekyll Theme Markdown Guide

04 Nov 2021

Text can be bold, italic, strikethrough or keyword Link to another page. There should be whitespace between paragraphs. There should be whitespace between paragraphs. We recommend including a README, or a file with information about your project. Image Images can...