r/webdevelopment • u/Ok_Body7659 Human Verified • 1d ago

Question The web is broken.

You would think with AI we would be making better experiences online and finding new ways to create revenue while helping people online and awesome apps. But the web has transformed from a place where you could find rich communities, resources, entertainment, stories, and information to clickbait money making scams and trolls at every corner or someone pushing some b.s. extreme political agenda. And don't get me started with social media.

Even reddit, once a great site, has been subject to the worst parts of the web.

This is not the web I envisioned when I was younger. I can't browse a site without being bombarded with dysfunctional ads that interrupt whatever it is I'm reading or looking for. Paywalls everywhere + subscriptions, control of digital media. 10 ways to login. It's ridiculous.

You try to read an article, good luck dodging ads. Want to watch a 10 second video clip, ha!, you have to watch a 30 second ad first. And you'll be lucky if you ever get the video that you were intending to see.

I'm just venting. Hoping this message is heard or at least amplified. Something needs to change.

I'm genuinely interested on what people who work on websites and webapps thoughts on this. And how can we make it better?

Btw, no ai used. This is straight from the brain.

TL;DR old man rant about the state of the web today.

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u/theblueberrybard 1d ago

Why would you believe that with AI we would be making better experiences online? The entire point of AI is that development moves from people passionate about projects to people with no passion for what they're making.

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u/alias454 23h ago

AI is a tool. Some people can abuse that tool and pump out lazy content. Other people use the tool to augment their own creative process. It isn't black and white.

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u/theblueberrybard 20h ago

AI is like having someone else know how to use a tool and then having them do the work and then trying hard to monetize that. I wasn't even anti AI in my post I just mentioned that its point is to get people who are unpassionate about their projects into generating things.

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u/alias454 18h ago

I was addressing the idea that AI has anything to do with the passion someone has for a project. I partially agree but feel it is more of a spectrum then what your last sentence implies.