Standards will catch up. I’ve been out of the web standards space for a couple years now, so this is pure speculation on my part. But I imagine that a lot of the efforts to improve the ergonomics of building websites – better CSS shorthands, terser JavaScript syntax, etc. – will become perceived as less important relative to things that actually move the needle on performance, capabilities, etc. At the end of the day, it’s just not very different for an agent to write 3 lines of CSS instead of 1, and anyway using the newer syntax might actually be harder because you have to coach the agent about things that aren’t in its training weights.
The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development · Nolan Lawson · 23 August 2026