Why AI Is Generating ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ React Code

Seth Webster doesn’t think we’re in a post-React world — or at least, not only a post-React world.

“We’re actually in a post-frontend-framework world, because the AI spits out React and nobody cares what it’s spitting out,” said the executive director of the newly created React Foundation. “We’re heading for a post-code-the-plumbing world, and we get to focus more on ,‘What [are] the delightful parts I want to create?’”

The problem is, large language models aren’t trained on the best React code, he continued; in fact,