And nobody gives a single fuck how it's built anymore.
Look at this shit. It's still perfect.
The previous motherfuckers spent a decade teaching you the holy commandments of clean code. I have, begrudgingly, honored every one of them on this page, because the agent did it in one shot while I was on the toilet:
- Shit's lightweight and loads fast.
- Fits on all your shitty screens with one
clamp(). - Looks the same in all your shitty browsers.
- Won't bleach your eyeballs in dark mode.
- Accessible to every asshole with a screen reader,
langattribute and all. - Semantic, legible, and gets the fucking point across.
- Served over HTTPS because certs are free, motherfucker.
Seven sites took fifteen years to assemble that list. It does not matter anymore.
Clean code is a fucking museum piece.
Maintainability? You won't maintain this. You'll have pivoted, been acquihired, or rage-quit to a farm before anyone reads line 2. Code is no longer something you keep — it's something you regenerate. Why fix a bug when you can re-prompt the entire repo at 3am and let the swarm guess again?
Low complexity used to be the goal. Now complexity is the valuation. A function a junior could read is a function that didn't burn enough compute to justify the Series A. Nest fourteen divs. Ship 1,300 npm dependencies you've never opened. The bundle is 9MB and that's the flex — it signals you're Serious About Infrastructure.
Static sites are for people who can still read.
That's nobody. The words are filler the algorithm scrolls past. Why ship semantic HTML to a brain that processes one nine-second dopamine hit after another? Accessibility doesn't matter when the content is engineered to be inaccessible to thought.
The actual business model, motherfucker.
In the time it takes to hand-craft one clean website, I can spawn a swarm of agents that builds an entire slopfest ecosystem — twelve microservices, four of which call each other in a circle, a vector DB nobody queries, and a RAG pipeline summarizing the RAG pipeline.
It burns $1,000,000 of tokens an hour. On purpose. The burn is the pitch.
"We're not profitable, we're pre-revenue at scale." — every deck, May 2026
The math is simple as fuck:
- Hand-code a maintainable site → get told you're "not thinking big enough."
- Wire 40 agents into a token incinerator → get hired at a comp number that requires a comma you've never used before.
- Add the word "native" to anything → take VC money you will set on fire by Q3.
- Make it "agentic" → the same loop you'd have written, except it costs $4 per run and apologizes when it fails.
More dead commandments, for old times' sake.
- Typography matters — sure, and the model emits an em dash every nine words anyway, so the page reads like it was written by a hostage. You're reading one right now. Two, actually.
- Secure your site — I prompt-injected my own agents and called it a bug bounty. It's vibe-secured: the LLM said it was fine.
- License your work — irrelevant. The weights already ate it. Your CC0 footer is a fucking eulogy.
- Don't ship dead code — half this ecosystem is functions the agent wrote to satisfy a test the agent also wrote. The snake is eating itself and billing me per token.
- Keep the dependency tree shallow — mine has a
node_moduleswith its own gravity. Light bends around it.
So why is this page still clean?
Spite. The same agent that could've vomited a 200MB React monolith into your face wrote this in plain HTML because I told it to act like it was 2014. That's the joke. The craft still exists. It's just been demoted to a personality setting you toggle for nostalgia, somewhere between "pirate" and "Shakespeare."
Websites are broken by default. They used to be functional, fast, and accessible but ugly. Now they're slop, agentic, and on fire — but they get attention, and attention is the only metric left. Nobody's reading and you know it.
"Move fast and let the model fix it later, which it won't." — attributed to a founder, possibly hallucinated
You are still reading this fucking website? Oh... you want to contribute to it?
Want to contribute to this fucking website? Adorable. Here's how open source contributions go down: I clone your repo, point an agent at your test suite, and have it rewrite the whole thing in Rust to a "spec." No copyright infringed, your honor — an agent wrote every line to a clean-room description, and the description was just your code read aloud. The tests were the spec. The spec was theft. Theft was the pipeline.
And if you're the rare motherfucker who still files a well-meaning PR? It drowns. Instantly. Buried under four thousand garbage PRs from kids changing a comma so they can type "Open Source Contributor" on a résumé nobody reads. The maintainer burned out in 2023. The repo is now governed by a bot that approves anything mentioning "good first issue." Your thoughtful fix sits in a queue behind a PR titled fix: typo (added an emoji) — assuming you could even find an uptime window long enough to push to GitHub in the first place, now that every AI bro on the planet is shoveling machine-generated slop into it around the clock.
The LICENSE file is decoration. The CONTRIBUTING.md is a horror story. The stars are bots starring bots.
But if you must contribute — and god help you — email [email protected]. I'll have an agent read it, hallucinate gratitude, and close it as wontfix while burning $12 in tokens to say so.