These articles make me wonder, are we driving ourselves into a local maximum of progress? If people move to React because agents know React, will the next better framework ever get traction?
Extrapolate this thought to more than just front end dev, especially because we'll have fewer actual practitioners to invent the next framework.
Or another angle - will we even need a framework? Frameworks exist to give humans better a better interface for common patterns. But LLMs can find and replicate patterns all day in vanilla Javascript without getting bored or annoyed by bad ergonomics.
The big bet is that the LLMs will get good enough to invent new frameworks or even branches of math. I hope it pans out. Otherwise we will get stuck in a local maximum for a while.
On the positive side We won’t get the cars, but our horses will be damn fast ;)
Extrapolate this thought to more than just front end dev, especially because we'll have fewer actual practitioners to invent the next framework.
Maybe the agents will do it for us I guess?