Your AI Assistant Is a React Fanboy and You Should Be Worried

Ask most AI coding tools to “build me a web app” and watch what happens. Nine times out of ten, you’ll get: React, Next.js, Tailwind, maybe a sprinkle of popular auth and UI libraries. No context. No questions about your team. No questions about your constraints. If you listen to AI long enough, you could easily conclude: React is obviously the “right” choice, Next.js is obviously the framework for everything, Angular is for… nobody, apparently. AI doesn’t pick stacks based on your reality. It picks stacks based on its.