Mastodawn

the idea that the web ecosystem isn't "open" anymore because of complexity is ridiculous. anyone can still write basic html and javascript and get a site working. you don't have to use flexbox. you could just use nested tables. nobody gives a shit

the web ecosystem isn't open anymore because 5 planet spanning companies richer than god monopolize it now and you can't fix that by buying into the AI slop those very companies are peddling

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…

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Szabó Em, Enigma He-Art Director

3d ago

@eniko a 14k modem, an afternoon with an O'Reilly book, and my sister's dad (who codes databases for a living) taught 9 year old me how to build a website. I was 9 friggin years old the first time I coded a fully functioning website that had a guest book. I was handling input/output and database structures at 9!

If you’re a grown ass adult who drones on and on about how you need an ai slop machine to create a page for you......you've been conditioned to believe you're too incapable of becoming more than you are now. That's the saddest thing I can think of and I pity those that go about their lives like that.

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Chip

@jadedtwin @eniko AI Coding Agents: Learned Helplessness, At Scale!

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Chip 3d ago

@jadedtwin @eniko But seriously. If you’re not going to spend an hour learning to build a page by hand, you can’t begin to understand the horrors a coding agent is going to build for you. This is worse than learned helplessness, it’s a siren call that will lead people to build insecure systems that cause real harm.