Ship in the minimum amount of time possible, by any means, to be first to market. And this means poor design and smooshing together all kind of fat general-purpose frameworks and libraries to get something out the door.
Sure, it’s slow. Google’s landing page is 4 MB for a small graphic, a text form, and some buttons. But what are you going to do? Not use it? They won. They don’t have to fix shit.
And now with LLMs they can produce bloat faster than ever and pay even less attention to speed or quality.
Ship in the minimum amount of time possible, by any means, to be first to market. And this means poor design and smooshing together all kind of fat general-purpose frameworks and libraries to get something out the door.
Sure, it’s slow. Google’s landing page is 4 MB for a small graphic, a text form, and some buttons. But what are you going to do? Not use it? They won. They don’t have to fix shit.
And now with LLMs they can produce bloat faster than ever and pay even less attention to speed or quality.
“The goal was never quality software.”
Google is a bad example, historically the landing page has been interestingly optimised.
Lots of corporate websites are multi-hundred MB things though you are right.
I’d like you to name 1 that’s multi-hundred MB.
I saw something where the NYT webside takes up over 100MB if RAM.