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This, pretty much exactly what I've been noticing too. Feel for the juniors though, its rough trying to learn when the tool in front of you can just spit the whole answer out. I st…

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The cost of writing code dropped but the cost of maintaining it didn't. If anything that makes saying no more important, not less.

One area where AI is reliably faster with no quality tradeoff is writing E2E tests. You can cover a ton of edge cases in an afternoon that you would normally skip, and if something…

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The never-resolving promise trick is clever but what caught me off guard is how clean the GC behavior is. Always assumed hanging promises would leak in long-lived apps but apparent…

This looks nice. I work on a rich text editor and have a large Playwright test suite. The hardest bugs to catch are always the ones where a speciffic sequence of user actions leave…

That makes sense, the hidden input approach is clever. Google Docs definitely proved it's viable at scale. The RTL support is a nice touch, that's notoriously tricky to get right. …

Impressive that you built the rendering layer from scratch on Canvas. Curious about one thing though, how do you handle accessibility? With contenteditable you get a lot of browser…