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> period of great homogenization It's called alignment. And that's the correct word for it in my opinion. The most important part is that we have to find a wa
by cookiengineer 13d ago
> period of great homogenization
It's called alignment. And that's the correct word for it in my opinion.
The most important part is that we have to find a way to tackle the knowledge enshittification problem.
Because now that slopcode and slopposts are everywhere, the average quality level will decrease. We had the peak internet knowledge, and it's now gradually getting worse.
That's not a personal opinion, that's how attention matrixes and their keys/values computation works.
- skew-aberration 13d agoIt was once called 'natural monopoly'
- bluefirebrand 13d ago> It's called alignment Alignment is such a polite term for "a giant boot that is crushing all of the uniqueness out" Once it is done crushing, congrats! Everything is aligned.. by being flattened
- bhawker 13d agoDoes the world need the "uniqueness" of 40 similar web frameworks?
- bluefirebrand 12d agoPerhaps not but the world does need the uniqueness of 40 different people who each made their own web frameworks
- camillomiller 13d agoAs long as there are standards, yes, why not. In Italian we have a saying: il mondo è bello perché è vario. The world is beautiful because it’s varied.
- arvinsim 6d agoImagine if we have 40 variants of assembly. Would software development have developed at the same pace? Personally for me, I am much less interested in the implementation in frontend and more interested in performance, accessibility, responsiveness, etc. Frontend frameworks are just means to an end. If we can standardize to one, then I will have more time to focus on the more important parts.
- jansan 13d agoSince a good LLM can handle any of those 40 web frameworks, I think having 40 web frameworks is becoming less of a problem than it used to be. Actually, implementing ideas in an individual manner will become easier. Remember the Bazaar and the Cathedral? The Bazaar kind of failed on the client side, but LLMs may revive it.
- sznio 13d agothe world certainly needs novel ideas. maybe eventually we'll come up with a web framework that doesn't suck - or rather we'll realise that Django had it right all along for all these years.
- gmac 13d agoPerhaps not if the one framework we ended up with was a good one …