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WHEN EVERYONE'S A DEVELOPER, HOW DO WE PROMOTE THE WEB PLATFORM OVER REACT?
Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter
AI code generation tools are undermining web platform adoption by defaulting to React/Next.js solutions, especially as "vibe coders" (non-programmers using AI to create apps) increasingly rely on these tools without understanding native web capabilities. This trend is creating worse web experiences, and some solutions include teaching people to prompt for vanilla web solutions, creating open datasets of framework-free code, and spotlighting projects that use modern web features without heavy frameworks.