Ever get the feeling that modern web dev has become… a bit too complex?
Sometimes I catch myself thinking about the “good old days”. When you could just write some code, compile it, and run it without worrying about all the dependencies, the build tools, the client-side rendering, the server-side rendering, the server components, and all the other buzzwords that are thrown around in the web dev world… just code doing its thing.
And honestly, I think that feeling isn’t totally wrong. Maybe we can make things simpler, faster, more straightforward again.
So naturally… I decided to embrace the future by going back to the past: COBOL.
Here’s my (100% serious, definitely not questionable) migration story.
bro why the ai slop
If you don't like the images, fair. It's just that I personally prefer to have these than none at all
In case you find a reader's perspective useful: Whenever I see someone using AI images, I just close the article, as it feels very likely they used AI for the text too, and I'm not interested in consuming slop in any form.
Yeah, you wouldn't eat around the shit in the shit–stained pizza, you'd just throw the whole thing
That's definitely a choice you can make, but if I see AI at all, I immediately move on from the article or at the very least treat it as nothing of value. Other than the ethical implications of using AI, seeing it tells me the author couldn't be bothered to care about their article, and so neither will I.
Just some outside perspective and feedback from just one person.