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> It’s always been interesting to me that multi-million and even billion dollar tech companies don’t have perfect websites in terms of UX.

This, but for online shops, especially clothing. Horrendously buggy, laggy, with broken navigation (especially when navigating back), filters that don't work on > 95% of online stores. Why they wouldn't fix their primary (or at the very least highest margin) income stream is beyond me, but I've had to abandon so many shopping carts just because the checkout flow is literally broken.


This is my exact experience, but with Google Maps. Constantly suggesting gravel (or worse) side roads instead of highways and hallucinating multiple turn lanes etc on a country road about 1 car wide. It's been a few years, but I still remember the time I was in Berlin and buses didn't run due to bad weather, but I had a flight to catch so I had to walk to the Tegel airport and the route Google maps recommended ended up being quite an adventure, having to crawl through a hole in a linked fence on an unlit dead-end road next to the airport.

Clearly the real issue is their 27001 expired on 15/12/2025

> I thought A16Z were a top-tier VC wanting to create long-term value.

That hasn’t been the case since they publicly went all-in into crypto scams.

> It might be a bit facetious, but if I had 10m invested with them I'd be asking questions about their investment thesis.

Their fund sizes have skyrocketed since.


> Not so large that it is too large to show on a GitHub page.

Maybe not applicable in this case, but Github has a ridiculously low threshold for when it starts hiding diffs. Probably a limitation of their new React frontend.


In short term profits vs long term benefits, we all know who wins.


> And is the reputational risk worth it?

Yes! The only metric that matters is assets under management, since that’s where funds take their cut. Nothing else matters.

A16Z used to be a respected investor, then they went crazy deep into crypto scams and their AUM exploded, so they made more money than ever before.


> If your first contact with rails is version 7+ and you’re only comfortable with JS/TS, then you’re not going to get it and might actually strongly dislike it

This is the primary issue with Rails in my experience. It takes intentional effort to internalize the idioms before it clicks and you unlock the magic that makes it so insanely productive. JS devs will keep trying to force backend business logic into Franken-React Stimulus components and complaining it's not very good.


Yes, I've seen that, too. The rails way of doing things can feel like a terrible limitation to some developers, while others enthusiastically embrace it


> Accelerate your agents with convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails scales from PROMPT to IPO. Token-efficient code that's easy for agents to write and beautiful for humans to review

This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

Rails is amazing, but "token-efficiency" is not on the list of reasons why.


> This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

Typical DHH insanity.


> This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans.

The people who think that spicy autocomplete actually has an understanding of the slop it's churning out for them.


Those people don't choose frameworks. It'll be chosen for them by some LLM and given the prevalence of JS, it'll likely be some flavor of React.


Having grown up playing with LEGOs, I can still distinctly remember the feeling of sore fingers pulling tiny pieces apart after a long session. It wasn't until a few years ago I learned there's an official brick separator tool [1]. Would've changed my life as a kid.

[1] https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/help-topics/article/lego-...


> It wasn't until a few years ago I learned there's an official brick separator tool

You mean a little brother?


Okay this lit up my life for the day


There are multiple brick separators, with different strengths and weaknesses.


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