The value of FE unit testing is inversely proportional to the amount of mocking in said tests. I once worked on a complex admin dashboard with lots of business edge cases. The unit tests for the forms and the settings didn’t have any mocks and therefore we could catch legitimate bugs. On the other hand I have worked on code bases with so much mocking that I couldn’t make the tests to fail by intentionally bricking the component.

AI slopping my config is what allowed me to learn vim without going through the pain of setting it up. I can ask AI to teach me about some motions or set up some configs for m in lua without ever know lua. This is the biggest impact of AI in my professional life.

Does it matter if the response is tone deaf or simply misguided? I am a bit nihilistic here, but in one week absolutely nobody will be talking about this. Are the affected individuals going to abandon instagram? Are people going to reduce their usage out of concern for the safety of their accounts? Nothing will happen, hence there is no need for actual humans writing a good, well intended response.

> in one week absolutely nobody will be talking about this.

In news media, sure. But in IT teams around the world people will be referring to this (the exploit opening stupidity) for years as how NOT to do things. :)

Everyone has a limit to how much bullshit they'll put up with. This could be the last straw for some people to finally quit Instagram. I quit Instagram, Facebook and all other Meta properties in 2025, after complaining about various problems for years. Other people may quit temporarily and then return, but any time they spend away from Instagram may give them experience that will help them quit permanently later.

> Does it matter if the response is tone deaf or simply misguided?

I agree with you that in a week nobody will be talking any more, but I'm pretty sure it's a GDPR data breach, and they can have some trouble within EU.

Yeah, they probably don't give a fu.. about EU, but if the response doesn't matter at all why did they spend time on it?

WASM is not for games specifically, it's for anything that needs native performance but also needs to run on the web.

Interesting. Can you please elaborate more? Is it due to the combination of popular foundation (js) and the addition of strong typing? The runtime environment differences? The ease of integration with other languages / tools?

Don't underestimate the significance of code being runnable in a browser environment.

> A word to web devs. I hate your crap.

I would like to say I agree with the proposition of your post and your arguments, but as a web dev please don't mix the state of the web with what the median web dev considers a good UI/UX. We don't make the Jira tickets and if you have worked in a corporate environment you know very well that arguments like "but the UX/accessibility" hold very very little value in the context of most decisions.

I know, don't shoot the messenger. Orders are orders. I was kind to bosses except for the four times I left summarily, with a few choice words, or not. They were grasping at straws, a massive ego trip, their boss's ass, or just a move from engineering to (mis)management.

But I ramble. Most stuff ain't worth arguing over.

This time.

I believe there is a middle ground here. Quick calls can definitely mess with your flow in your day to day work, but ruining multiple hours of “in the state” is either an overstatement or the author may be best suited for a different role that demands less communication.

On the other hand modern application of agile methodology is borderline ruinous for team productivity and most of the time exists for a specific stakeholder to feel less anxious rather than for a team member to raise a blocker or a dependency.

I work in a fairly big company and there is the notion of extracting people from their agile teams to have them work uninterrupted on large tech initiatives. Which is in my opinion a subtle way to signal that if you know what you want to build, agile methodology at least in the perverted way most companies apply it doesn’t work.

For people like him who probably already have enough money it’s probably just chasing the opportunity to work at the bedding edge of the field he loves. And maybe get to be the father of AGI.

I get having the opportunity to do research, the problem is for whom.

Do you really want to be the person that hands this kind of tech to corporates? Or that does anything to benefit those corporates?

Only issue is what happens when the company that owns the search and has a dominant share of the browser market flags your site with the good old "warning: potential risk ahead" when people try to reach it directly? And buries the "I know the risk let me through" deep in the browser settings. Advocate for different browsers? Google is pushing web attestation in one form or the other. I wish the future would look bleak, because right now it's looking blue, red, yellow and green and it's worse.

> Only issue is what happens when the company that owns the search and has a dominant share of the browser market flags your site with the good old "warning: potential risk ahead" when people try to reach it directly?

My target market is more technical then that so likely, nothing would change for me. Again, I recognize the impact of Google's dominance for some, but if the "attestation" isn't helpful and only hinders using services that people have come to rely on, there will be push back.

I also have been advocating for years for everyone in my circle to avoid using Chrome. A homogenized browser market is a risk, and Chrome is the new IE. I hope you are also a part of the effort to advocate for browser diversity.

You could lose your domain name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151233

Don't forget that other browsers also just use googles web good boy list and if you report false positives point you towards google and cover their ears.

> flags your site with the good old "warning: potential risk ahead"

They are already training people to click these away.

You're allowed to exist on the web. The alternative is you are pushed out, your site is not indexed and google / chrome labels it as a security risk when people are trying to reach it directly. The mandate is clear: give up the data or give up the spot.