Keep it simple stupid
...and do you really think that inexpensive AI is REALLY going to be able to
"figure out" the snippet your vendor stole from Stack Overflow
that depended on browser quirks five years ago? I have seen this time-and-again
with websites that no longer function very well.
Incremental Improvement
Why relearn the same lessons by replacing the whole website?
There are all kinds of technical companies trying to "sell you a solution"
with a completely different set of expensive "gotchas:".
Avoid the "(b)leading edge" It is always fulla bugs. Only use the leading edge if it is mission critical.
Use as little as possible to solve YOUR problem, not everyone else's!
Build on Standards
Academics who invented all this technology actually answer to someone: their own headstrong community of
standards bearers.
Even if they call it a living standard,
all base web technology is built on a collection of slow-changing documents
that guarantee that vendors themselves can compete on a level playing field.
They can't afford to change it except when absolutely necessary; change means "breaking people's websites".
Loss of Freedom Technology companies are extremely high-risk enterprises, especially since exceptionally
high wages are paid, regardless of the actual expertise of their participants. As such, technology companies
are trying to profit by taking money from somebody (that hasn't the freedom to find an alternative) to stay afloat. As long as you have technical skills
to stay in the low-use, low-cost tier, you get what you need, can change providers and not run over budget.
