Rick Viscomi

Rick Viscomi is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google on the Chrome team, where he leads developer relations for Modern Web Guidance and Baseline. Previously, he worked on web performance developer relations, served as a core maintainer of the HTTP Archive, and built web applications at YouTube. Passionate about using open data to understand how the web is built, he created the Web Almanac, the Core Web Vitals Technology Report, and capo.js.

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Why Your Coding Agent Still Writes 2019 Web Code

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Why Your Coding Agent Still Writes 2019 Web Code

Frontier coding agents routinely ship hundreds of lines of legacy JavaScript for UI patterns the web platform now handles natively. Drawing on Modern Web Guidance, an agent skill with 200+ web development tasks, we’ll explore why models lag behind the platform, and how to steer and verify them in practice.

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