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The web platform and its tooling now outrun the builder's judgment

Josh Comeau walks through Interop 2027's ten CSS proposals while Paul Ford's Aboard and EditUI both show solo builders shipping production-grade tools by working directly in code and live UI rather than specs or mockups. If the browser platform and the agent tooling around it both now let one person build what used to need a team, the bottleneck shifts from "can you build it" to "do you know what's worth building."

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Web browsers have become powerful enough that building applications costs almost nothing

A working office suite built solo on raw web tech is a concrete data point for how much less capital and effort a serious product now needs before you validate it.

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Open EditUI on a live staging build, click one messy UI element, and describe the fix in plain language to see how close the agent's output gets without you writing a spec.

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