Why AI Hates Modern Frameworks (and Loves Web Standards)

<p>A few weeks ago, I watched a software engineer with seven years of experience spend forty-five minutes trying to understand why his local development environment was consuming

<h2> Introduction: The Moment Manual Coding Became "Optional" </h2> <p>In January 2026, Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, made a statement that reverberated across

<p>I was sitting in a demo from the head of architecture when the problem clicked into focus. He was showing how his team had moved everything out of Confluence and into Markdown

<p>$9.2 billion. That is what investors valued Cursor's parent company Anysphere at in September 2025, after a $400M Series B. Bolt.new hit $2.1B. Lovable raised at $180M.

<h2> What Happened </h2> <p>I pay $200/month for Anthropic's highest individual tier — Max 20x. I use Claude Code (their CLI tool) daily with a team of AI agents for building

<p>In Q3 2025, our 14-person frontend team stared down a 3.2MB initial bundle for our Angular 18 enterprise resource planning (ERP) app — a figure that triggered 4.7s first

<h2> From "Prove It in Code" to "Prove It in Judgment" </h2> <p>For decades, credibility in software came from what you built with your own hands. Writing robust systems required

<p>Let’s face it: if your current frontend optimization strategy still involves manually auditing codebases for missing <code>useMemo</code> hooks, micro-managing dependency