Richard MacManus

It’s been a few weeks since OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-5, was released to mixed reviews — with one prominent frontend developer even doing a 180 and completely changing their tune within days. But now that developers have had time to put the new model through its paces, we can better determine whether GPT-5 “excels at … Read more

This year Cloudflare has been outspoken in its support of the web’s content creators in the AI era, who have had to endure wholesale ransacking of their content by LLM providers and AI search engines — not to mention ever-diminishing visits from web users. A couple of months ago, CEO Matthew Prince declared 1 July … Read more

The push to integrate AI technologies into IT departments is intense, but it must be even more so for companies within the tech industry — especially if their own product offering has been stuffed with AI. So I was intrigued when I was approached by Webflow, one of the largest website builder platforms, to talk … Read more

In an article introducing GPT‑5 to developers, OpenAI claimed that the new model “excels at front-end coding, beating OpenAI o3 at frontend web development 70% of the time in internal testing.” Romain Huet, OpenAI’s head of developer experience, added on X that GPT-5 is “astonishingly good at frontend development.” There was also support from well-known … Read more

If APIs were the connective tissue between different websites and apps during the Web 2.0 era, then AI agents are shaping up to be the same thing in the AI era. In other words, AI agents will increasingly be how you access and use data from various sources around the internet. APIs aren’t going away, … Read more

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, announced its second-quarter financial results today. In both the press release and in CEO Sundar Pichai’s remarks, AI was mentioned every couple of lines. What wasn’t mentioned? The word “web.” Not even when it came to talking about search, the core product of Google that was built on — … Read more

If you want to create a user interface for your web application, these days, chances are you’ll use React — or at least, that’s what your frontend developers will likely suggest. Turns out, that’s the primary reason why Gent Hito, CEO of /n software, decided to target React with his company’s new UI builder product, … Read more

This week, a web framework called Hono announced on X that it had “finally” reached 25,000 GitHub stars. While 25,000 fans is not exactly under the radar, Hono hasn’t had the attention it deserves either. Given it is built on web standards, rather than (for example) React, Hono seems like an indicator of where frameworks … Read more

Thirty years ago, Netscape engineer Brendan Eich famously created a new client-side scripting language in just ten days. It was initially called Mocha, but by the end of the year it would be renamed JavaScript. In 1995, nobody could’ve predicted that JavaScript would become the world’s most popular programming language. But that’s exactly what happened. … Read more

Half an hour before I attended Google’s press briefing announcing Gemini CLI — an “open source AI agent that brings the power of Gemini directly into your terminal” — I tuned into the live YouTube stream of Warp announcing its version 2.0 product. Warp, one of the original AI-focused terminal apps, was launching what it … Read more

“Every AI agent needs a web browser,” said Paul Klein IV, CEO of headless browser vendor Browserbase, at this month’s AI Engineer World’s Fair. What is a headless browser? Simply put, it’s a web browser without a graphical user interface. Until very recently, they’ve been used primarily for running automated web app tests and for … Read more