Some degree of skepticism is healthy here. An online comment is not definitive proof, and it’s all too easy to pile accusations as part of a comment thread that’s already critical of someone. But the way you readily armchair psychoanalyze and dismiss the OP tells me you’re not engaging in an honest way.

- Using a stack your team is familiar with still has value

- Migrating the codebase to another stack still isn’t free

- Ensuring feature and UX parity across platforms still isn’t free. In other words, maintaining different codebases per platform still isn’t free.

- Coding agents are better at certain stacks than others.

Like you said any of these can change.

It’s good to be aware of the nuance in the capabilities of today’s coding agents. I think some people have a hard time absorbing the fact that two things can be true simultaneously: 1) coding agents have made mind bending progress in a short span 2) code is in many ways still not free

Last year the US voted to hand over the reigns, in all branches of government, to a party whose philosophy is to slash government spending and reduce people’s dependence on the government.

To all the US futurists who are fantasizing about a post-scarcity world where we no longer work, I’d like to understand how that fits in with the current political climate.

I’ve seen the code current tools produce if you’re not careful, or if you’re in a domain where training data is scarce. I could see a world where a couple of years from now companies need to bring outside people to fix vibe coded software that managed to gain traction. Hard to tell.

What I think does change is now you can more easily write components that are tailor made to your problem, and situation. Some of these frameworks are meant to solve problems at varying levels of complexity and need to worry about avoid breaking changes. It’s nice to have the option to develop alternatives that are as sophisticated as your problem needs and not more. But I’m not convinced that it’s always the right choice to build something custom.

Over the years I’ve come to realize that what people call politics at times is just having interpersonal skills.

I’m not an AI hater but I do see this as evidence of LLMs being susceptible to chasing trends as much as people.

Next.js with server rendered React is not a stack that an experienced web developer would have recommended for a “clean” solution to a collection of financial calculators. It’s the answer you’d get if you asked for the stack that’s trending the most lately.

The meat of the article is informative, but the headline and motivation is based on this statement. It’s doesn’t reflect my experience but maybe I just don’t hang out in the same internet spots as the OP.

> We don’t yet see major websites entirely built with webassembly-based frameworks

I don’t know why this entered into the zeitgeist. I don’t think this was ever a stated goal of the WebAssembly project. I get the sense that some people assumed it and then keep wondering why this non-goal hasn’t been realized.