build gates

Shipping no client-side script is usually sold as a speed optimisation. The speed is the smallest thing you get. What actually changes is the set of failures your site is capable of having.

Most canonical bugs are not tagging mistakes. They are a site accidentally telling search engines that all of its pages are the same page — and the defaults in every framework make that the easy thing to do.

Your direct dependencies are a decision. Everything underneath them is a consequence — and on a typical install, the consequences outnumber the decisions by two orders of magnitude.

A calendar day and an instant in time are different types, and most date bugs are the moment one is silently converted into the other. The fix is not better formatting — it is refusing the conversion.

Autonomous agents are good at proposing changes and bad at being trusted with them. The whole design problem is putting a reviewable boundary between the two, and most setups skip it because the boundary is inconvenient.