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Karol Klepacki's avatar

Thanks Addy! I remember the amazing event we both attended - EdgeConf 2015 in London’s Facebook office. On the bleeding edge of promoting service workers and performance.

I feel like that was the last notable movement, ending in putting Lighthouse as a primary tenant in Chrome DevTools for the web anti-bloat. Long gone. Median Page Weight (almanac.httparchive 2022) - 1440KB of which 461KB is JS!

Solid reset of how we build “online software” is just around a corner!

Addy Osmani's avatar

EdgeConf 2015! What a throwback - that was such an amazing event. We're actually doing some analysis around the performance of vibe-coded and AI-generated apps right now to understand how much more work there is to do there.

The 'solid reset' resonates - maybe AI agents demanding efficient, direct interfaces will be the forcing function the web never had. Sometimes it takes a completely different paradigm to make us question what we've been accepting as normal.