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Post #4484091

2026-08-04 22:00 UTC

Nobody whose done modern web development should be surprised that people want to use AI. We put JavaScript in HTML, and then put XML in JavaScript. A static webpage built with create-react-app is 300MB and people do it anyway. The Dom was "slow" so we built a Virtual Dom to go with it. We have tools that compile JavaScript to JavaScript. The industry-standard is to use a state-driven framework in an event-driven environment. CSS is either put inside JavaScript, or else we use a framework that carefully reimplements every possible command in a way that prevents them being re-used, and then graft re-use back onto it because it turned out to be useful. Nothing works because we make junior web developers rebuild the button and text box components from the ground up for every project instead of just using the browser ones. Web development has not made a lick of sense in years. LLMs couldn't possibly make it any worse, they just make the bad developers faster.

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