There's been a lot of unrest as noted in various threads here at HN, more recently [1] where the linked topic offers an insight of preloading a script before it's actually initialised and up and running.
With the average run of the mill site, forums, the problem can be side loading scripts that are doing more than just providing a feature - while many sites eventually time out quickly on a problem script, a few would not ... my solution was to put a lot of POS script sites offering nice (read deep scrape for personal information or refusal of obvious baked BS) features in the deny list, many sites then worked without issue albeit with less features - but a few did not - then they too were added to my deny list.
I can’t remember where I read or watched this, but the argument was that the main problem with a lot of software is simply code base size. Once your code base is large enough , it can no longer really be understood as a whole which leads to performance issues/bugs/vulnerabilties. I think that’s just an unavoidable part of large software.
Agentic engineering is probably not helping since it tends to accelerate growth of LOC. I also personally think quality is an issue as well but it could be a skill issue on my end idk.
It'd be really hard for me to change my current social media stack. As it is, I don't use much of it, but if I switch away from these apps, I'm not sure if there are better alternatives to these. Like, for instance, YouTube. I don't think they're an equivalent to it in terms of the content.
There's been a lot of unrest as noted in various threads here at HN, more recently [1] where the linked topic offers an insight of preloading a script before it's actually initialised and up and running.
With the average run of the mill site, forums, the problem can be side loading scripts that are doing more than just providing a feature - while many sites eventually time out quickly on a problem script, a few would not ... my solution was to put a lot of POS script sites offering nice (read deep scrape for personal information or refusal of obvious baked BS) features in the deny list, many sites then worked without issue albeit with less features - but a few did not - then they too were added to my deny list.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438339
Easy answer is large unmaintainable code bases + “agentic engineering”
IDK with certainty if that's the reason, but I'm sure it's contributing.
I can’t remember where I read or watched this, but the argument was that the main problem with a lot of software is simply code base size. Once your code base is large enough , it can no longer really be understood as a whole which leads to performance issues/bugs/vulnerabilties. I think that’s just an unavoidable part of large software.
Agentic engineering is probably not helping since it tends to accelerate growth of LOC. I also personally think quality is an issue as well but it could be a skill issue on my end idk.
I agree with you on the large codebase issue. That's a very real thing.
It could be that the apps you are using are spying on you and slowing down your experience. Try these non-spying apps: https://prism-break.org/en/
It'd be really hard for me to change my current social media stack. As it is, I don't use much of it, but if I switch away from these apps, I'm not sure if there are better alternatives to these. Like, for instance, YouTube. I don't think they're an equivalent to it in terms of the content.