For and against

Yesterday, good internet friend Baldur Bjarnason shared a series of shorts he made on why he doesn’t use generative AI, and it got me thinking about how much of my career has spent being against things. Early in my career, I was for web performance and accessibility and building cool things. But as JavaScript frameworks became increasingly ubiquitous, we saw the things I was for start to degrade rapidly. Sites got slower and harder to use. The web took on a boring sameness. I spent increasing amounts of my time and energy being against JS-heavy tooling like React and abstracting away writing code to NPM modules. More recently, I’ve been against AI. Like the JS libraries of yore, it’s making the web shittier… for the same reasons as JS frameworks, and many new reasons, too. Friends, I’m so fucking sick of being against things. I want to be for things again, but the current state of the web and the tech industry more broadly has made that relatively impossible for me when it comes to…

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