In the case of wayback machine reliance it isn't AI really; that's due to the decline of sectors of the tech industry meaning loads of places are cutting back o

In the case of wayback machine reliance it isn't AI really; that's due to the decline of sectors of the tech industry meaning loads of places are cutting back on hosting old stuff for very slight profit gains. There's an argument the way AI is getting so much focus has resulted in a neglect of this kind of stuff after years/decades of it sticking around at mostly fairly low cost. I'd say a bigger source of harm has been the endless iteration in agile practices meaning old stuff is treated as low priority because the business focus is always on adding new stuff. It's a lot harder to argue up the management chain that making something more stable will have longer term gains than A/B testing several new designs. The amount of sites that repeatedly destroyed their old content with a redesign is a bit absurd. A LOT of websites feel like they could benefit from improving their fundamental experiences and it's been so long since that was a priority that it's virtually an impossibility to untangle it at this point.