https://russellclare.com/tags/metrics/Recent content in Metrics on Russell ClareHugoen-gbThu, 19 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://russellclare.com/ai-hostile-web-metric-engineering/Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://russellclare.com/ai-hostile-web-metric-engineering/The New York Times homepage is 49MB and requires 422 network requests. The engineers who built it optimised correctly – they hit their metrics. This is the most important engineering ethics lesson in the attention economy: when the proxy becomes the target, the proxy stops working and the product becomes adversarial.