Chrome removes XSLT on November 17 because almost nobody uses it. The decision rule behind that is worth borrowing, because it applies to every vendor you depend on.
Merges grew tenfold in five months and source control became the bottleneck. The lesson for other companies is to find which of your tools still assume a person is the user.
Developers have always picked libraries by taste and familiarity. Now an agent makes those calls at machine speed, and most companies have never written down what it should prefer.
Netlify moved edge functions from lightweight isolates to full microVMs and cut latency from 25-40ms to 5-6ms. The lesson for leaders is where the speed actually came from.
Shopify's return to native Swift and Kotlin looks like an AI story. It's really a lesson in why the efficiency layers in your stack may no longer earn their cost.
