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In general I’d agree with you but where else would you go to take the money that’s more exciting than the forefront of AI in the world? Retirement makes sense, though if they wanted to retire they all could and own multi-million dollar homes and do so now, pre-IPO. Post ipo I guess you get a few super yachts and some land in Hawaii? Idk at a certain point I think these guys like the chase more than the result.

I’m surprised to hear that, I don’t often use accessibility options on Mac but i use some on iOS so I always assumed Apple had the best a11y since there are so many options on iOS. Like almost too many, though I get that’s kind of the point.

Been moving our 17-person engineering team to adopt ai and this comment summarizes all of my findings perfectly.

This specifically summarizes a huge gap I think some people have around ai:

> Architecture matters more than ever, but it is easier than ever to fix.

You can prompt away to your heart’s content, but if you’re not pushing it in the right direction architecturally, you’re bound to face frustration eventually.

The most successful way I’ve found to convert those leaning anti-AI or AI-skeptical on my team is just showing them how much tech debt I can clean up with AI. They get excited to pitch in, and they see that it does actually benefit them in some meaningful ways. That set of endpoints that’s been neglected for years? Let’s stop complaining about them and DO something about them, today. I’ve actually seen life be blown into some devs who were coasting for a while. It’s an interesting time.

Agreed. Too little and too late.

I've heard this claimed dozens of times. I wonder if anyone at Github can confirm this theory and maybe give insight into why they haven't just done this?

There’s going all in on AI adoption, then there’s what proton has done.

This is disgusting, full stop. Destroying any sense of trust in your company by allowing people to rat on others is going to bite them in the ass.

And all for AI, which ultimately is a tool that the largest portion of people already have adopted and those that haven’t often understand it’s the way forward anyway. Like instead of letting your people do this organically, maintaining trust in their org, you poison it instead. And for what? A few extra dollars in the bank? The greed is gross.

Not to mention the loss of customers/potential customers. I always thought proton was one of the good companies. That’s out the window with this news.

It should be illegal to do what instacart did to your wife.

I’m getting to that point of switching to a dumb phone. One thing I’ve done this week is completely not allow myself to respond to people/do any work even 1 minute after my scheduled end time. It’s wayyy too easy to do that these days.

Man, that's such a bummer. Thanks for the additional context.

Sounds like DigitalOcean really convinced Coyier that they'd invest and focus on CSS tricks as a key funnel, and I'm so curious why that ball was entirely dropped.

In my personal experience, so many decisions like this come down to one person with a suit and tie at the top making a decision, then either leaving or completely forgetting about it. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened here. For me and so many others, it's just hard to see something that had so much momentum and promise completely neglected for no clear reason.

Hoping the best for this new iteration of CSS Tricks, especially in this time where so many are struggling to find that interest in learning the basics of technologies when AI can do it for you.

Did DigitalOcean forget they owned CSS-Tricks? Because that's what seemed to have happened based on the limited notes on the subject I've read in the past few weeks.

I work at an edtech company (far from the content on this site) and I have to say the only real value in companies like this in an age of AI being able to spin up a platform in a few hours is human-written content. Otherwise why wouldn’t a person studying for one of these just ask Claude to write up a lesson plan?

Human generated content is quite literally the only thing left.

The glitchiness of this website on my fairly new iOS device…

Goes to show big investment doesn’t mean shit if the engineers behind it don’t know what they’re doing.

> Welltower and Palantir are doing an amazing job!

It’s funny to read that from this becuase I read it as these companies are so good at exploiting capitalism that they can make this much profit and benefit so few actual people in the country. It’s like they’re a leech on the country, rather than companies to be proud of.

If we have hundreds of hyper-successful companies but we have people going into medical bankruptcy for a cancer diagnosis, I’d say America is failing at taxing these companies enough to fund what actually matters in society.

> The DOM is a slow annoying pile when you want to make actual applications.

Can you be more specific? Because to me the DOM is one of the simplest conceptual representations of UI one could imagine, a tree of nodes.

> But beyond that, AI can change, improve itself, and even alter part of its nature. Tools don't do that.

I mean what do you call it when a package adds new functionality in v1.1 vs 1.0?

Improving itself is hard to see. I don’t as a developer using opus 5.5 see it improving itself. It’s great, and I expect the next opus to be better, but while I have this version it seems pretty much the same.