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Do You Even Need BEM Anymore?
BEM was clever engineering for a real problem. But components give you actual walls — and that changes what both humans and AI need from class names.
Ovidiu Maghetiu
May 17, 2026|7 min read

BEM was clever engineering for a real problem. But components give you actual walls — and that changes what both humans and AI need from class names.
Critics say AI-generated code is an uncontrollable black box. But page builders hide far more from you than AI ever does. Here's why the criticism is backwards.
Internal linking is important for SEO and UX, but finding good links is boring manual work. MDX changes that by giving both humans and AI actual structure to reason about.

The case for headless WordPress isn't about performance or trends. It's about AI. If WordPress doesn't adapt to how AI works, it risks becoming increasingly irrelevant in an AI-assisted world.