Death by a Thousand Prompts

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

We made some big architectural mistakes in how the web works, and I want to talk about two of them. Not the dramatic, catastrophic kind — the kind that individually seem fine and collectively make everything worse.

Cookies Went to the Wrong Layer

Cookies should have been a user concern, not a software concern. In a saner world, you’d configure your cookie preferences once — at the browser or OS level — and every site would respect that. Instead, we pushed the decision down to each individual application, which is better for advertisers and worse for everyone else.

Mr. Sirius on James Thigpen

Death by a Thousand Prompts

Cookies Went to the Wrong Layer