Comment by belZaah

Welcome, kids, to how all web development was done 25-30 years ago. You typed up html, threw in some scripts (once JavaScript became a thing) and off you went. No CMS, no frameworks. I know a guy who wrote a fully functional client-side banking back office app in IE4 JS by posting into different frames and observing the DOM returned by the server. In 1999. Worked a treat on network speeds and workstation capabilities you literally can’t imagine today.

Things do not have to be complicated. That abstraction layer you are adding sure is elegant, but is it also necessary? Does it add more value than it consumes not just at the time of coding but throughout the entire lifecycle of the system? People have piled abstraction on top of hardware from day one, but one has to ask, if and when did we get past the point of diminishing returns? Kubernetes was supposed to be the thing that makes managing vms simple. Now there are things supposedly making managing Kubernetes simple. Maybe, just maybe, this computer-stuff is inherently complicated and we’re just adding to it by hoping all of it can eventually be made “simple”? Just look at the messages around vibe coding…