It’s been nearly five years since my last blog post. I’ve kept the site up during that time in case the archives were useful to anyone, but otherwise left WordPress-on-Dreamhost setup completely untouched for years.
Since I’ve been vibe-coding (a lot,) I figured I should try doing a bit of blogging to share some of what I found to work and not work in my experience.
When I logged into DreamHost to make a new post, I discovered that my WP installation was completely broken, and I just got a generic error message on any page that I tried to go to inside of the admin. Pre-AI encoding, I probably would have just given up because the effort to fix the blog was just not worth the time. However, AI saved the day.
I just told Claude Code what error message I was getting, and then it gave me instructions on exactly what to do and try, which included SSH-ing into the DreamHost box. Warp Terminal’s agent helped me write a cat command to find and dump the logs from several directories at once; I pasted those logs into Claude Code and it diagnosed a particular plug-in that was broken (and gave me the mv command to disable it.)
It worked. Now the blog is back.
Since the agents have been so helpful to me, hopefully I’ll now have some tricks to share in future posts to help with your agentic coding.