Stubborn Empathy
summary
Argues that web performance needs stubborn empathy not slogans and lists concrete shifts: Core Web Vitals are going cross‑browser, showing P75 INP ~88ms Chrome vs 120ms Firefox and LCP 2.26s Chrome vs 1.86s Firefox; Safari tech preview blocks rendering for a delayed stylesheet in the demo. Announces an open‑source agent called Telescope for cross‑browser diagnostics. Warns about AI: PR size +154%, review time +91%, bugs +9%, and skewed crawl→refer ratios (OpenAI 1.6, Anthropic 71,000).
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Talking about my kids
- 4:09Old man energy and performance
- 6:55Monoculture in web performance
- 12:09Cross-browser testing matters
- 16:18AI slop in development
- 21:55Agentic web dangers
- 24:23Rebuilding web with empathy
- 26:07Closing call
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