mastodon 4.7.3Strategic Consultant @ CSQ · Data Analyst and Web Performance Expert · he/his · also teach · #Opquast FTW · EN/fr · #fedi22
I've spent 15 years in web performance and UX analytics. Then AI hit.
Back then, devs butchered web primitives by hand. A few overpaid experts —skilled from years of trial and error— could still patch things up with audits and advice.
Now? Devs use tools that clone bad code at scale, pile on frameworks they don’t grasp, and build labyrinths of abstraction. The same overpaid experts now chase framework bugs –not UX fixes.
Skills? Stagnant. The web? Getting worse.
But hey, I’m fine.
Lorsqu'on délègue à l'IA à la fois l’écriture et la révision du code, les compétences en programmation deviennent obsolètes.
Le seul pouvoir qui reste aux gens est celui du savoir non documenté, non partagé. Accumuler des informations-clés devient alors le choix le plus rationnel.
Les projets ne répondent plus à des besoins réels. Certes, le code est produit sans effort, mais sans produire de valeur.
Il s’agit là d’un schéma de comportement organisationnel souvent observé dans les carrières de cadres supérieurs. Il constitue l’une des clés du Principe de Peter.
L’IA l’a rendu accessible à tous les collaborateurs individuels. C'est le progrès !
I've been waiting for this for 15 years. No kidding.
"Standard HTML Video & Audio Lazy-loading is Coming!", Scott Jehl (@scottjehl@mstdn.social)
AI flipped the script. The 80-20 rule? Now it’s 95-0.
95% of the work gets done in 5% of the time, and it's shipped like this.
Who needs to do things well when you can trash and redo everything from scratch in two prompts?
Users.
On m'a coupé le courant vendredi, et donc Internet, pendant 2h. L'occasion de finir cet article sur la tendance actuelle à ne jurer que par la productivité… au détriment de la qualité.
Une tendance exacerbée par les IA, mais qui ne date pas d'hier.
https://boris.schapira.dev/notes/2026-02-productivite-qualite/
When AI takes over both writing and reviewing code, programming skills become obsolete.
The only power that remains is that of undocumented knowledge. Accumulating key information then becomes the most rational choice.
Projects no longer meet real needs, and code is produced effortlessly—but for all the wrong reasons.
This is a pattern of organizational behavior often observed in executive careers. It constitutes one of Peter’s key principles.
AI has made it accessible to all individual contributors. Progress!
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Web archeologist here. We have a markup language in the web, HTML and at some point, was also had the possibility to create long and precise description for images with the longsesc attribute. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageElement/longDesc
Unfortunately, nobody was using it so it disappeared because the standards are paving the cow path more than dictating usage.
With my music recommendation!
"Accessibility specialists - Consultants or In-house? ", Natacha Madeuf (@tasha11y@mastodon.social)
https://wonkythoughts.blogspot.com/2026/04/accessibility-specialists-consultants.html?m=1
Et vous, c'est quoi votre lecture de l'été ?
