The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

Post by satrerer » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 8:20 AM UTC

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #153

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #49

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Yes, presumably that's why she did not update the website for 20 years! If once she's decided to update the website—surely it's worth more then $20 at that point? Otherwise, she probably shouldn't be spending any time on it herself either, given the opportunity cost. Obviously she decided otherwise, I just find it kind of surprising. Like, in general, I'm always kind of surprised at what people are and aren't willing…

>If once she's decided to update the website—surely it's worth more then $20 at that point? the problem here really, from both sides of the argument, is the assumption that humans are rational economic actors. One side assumes that it is not worth 20 dollars to update the site quickly thus she does not do it, but really for that to be true (given costs of psychologists sessions etc.) then it would not even be worth u…

Post by jplusequalt » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

chpatrick wrote: post #272

jplusequalt wrote: post #269

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>I'm also dependent on a bunch of advanced libraries and compilers I didn't write. Two different kinds of dependence here: one is taking advantage of a pre-existing tool to perform some set of tasks. The other is there to outsource your thinking over concepts you are not able to reason about yourself.

I'm also outsourcing computational geometry to CGAL and CPU optimizations to GCC, so what? I can still reason about them. For example for a problem I had recently Claude pointed out (after some prodding for me) that the determinant of the Jacobian of a function I'm interested in is a polynomial in polar coordinates, so I used a fancy root finding library (which I also didn't write) to solve it efficiently.

Post by hadlock » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

adamredwoods wrote: post #68

comrade1234 wrote: post #5

My wife's experience is managing teams and has been involved in creating corporate websites using contractors. She doesn't know anything about html at all. She just manages people. She's now working on a biotech start-up pre-funding. They have pretty much zero money. They want to redesign their website. I set her up with my deepseek key and she's been using flash-v4 with image detection (I think deepseek says it's st…

The key is you're doing it yourself, so it takes your time away from something else. And if something doesn't quite work out, who's the backup? For small shops and startups, this probably doesn't matter. For mission critical sites, who's more dependable? AI is a tool, that's all it is.