Comment by gumboza

4 years ago

- The slow death of SPAs and client side JavaScript (including WASM in that) will commence due to the dubious ROI.

- War against humans and AI commences. The AI content farms will destroy everything by reducing the signal to noise ratio so that all content is worthless regardless of who wrote it.

- Major cloud provider will screw something up and lose a lot of clients leading to a minor shift of corporates back to their own infrastructure.

- War against humans and AI commences. The AI content farms will destroy everything by reducing the signal to noise ratio so that all content is worthless regardless of who wrote it.

Honestly, since the release of ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion this Us something I have been thinking about a lot. I we thought that what we saw in the last 10-15 years was an explosion in content available online, we cannot even imagine the quantity of content that will come. I am actually surprised this has not happened yet, although I think that we will see more and more articles with contributions by ChatGPT. Short to mid-term I hope that this will not lead to a decrease in content quality/lack of diversity. Long-term I think we will see mechanisms arise to distinguish human writing from AI generated content.

I am aware that this might sound pessimistic, I am actually excited to see where his things will evolve!

> - The slow death of SPAs and client side JavaScript (including WASM in that) will commence due to the dubious ROI.

What do you think would replace it? it seems impossible to manage a modern frontend app without it. For most cases, I think we don't need it though.

  • Server side rendering with light weight JavaScript. The point you make about most cases not needing it is spot on.

    • This is how most products start and then inevitably it starts to require more complex interactive pages so you have to add react and then it becomes easier for everything to be react.

      Client side rendering is not strictly tied to single page apps. At a previous company we had rails render out a div containing all the data the page needed to mount the react component. No complex api design, no weird permission issues, etc.

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    • This sounds more like a wish than a prediction. I'm saying this as someone who used to love intercooler.js (and really dislikes htmx).

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I predict the opposite: more movement towards code running in the browser. Not that it is necessary always a good thing!

  • I think we'll see both, with a sort of push to the two extremes initially, and then the two extremes coming back together to meet in the middle again as WASM gains popularity on both the client and the server leading to a lot more "isomorphic" (stupid term in this context, but whatever) codebases.

    • I highly doubt WASM will gain much ground. It may for games, but I am willing to take a bet that there are more web apps out there than games.

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>War against humans and AI commences. The AI content farms will destroy everything by reducing the signal to noise ratio so that all content is worthless regardless of who wrote it.

That already began this year. We may realize it in 2023 though.