While the software development industry has been gorging on large language models (LLMs), the front-end ecosystem has quietly fractured into three competing but interrelated architectural paradigms. Between the dominance of reactive frameworks, the hypermedia-driven simplicity of true REST, and the decentralized resilience of SQL everywhere, developers are no longer just choosing a library, they are choosing where the data lives: at the server, at the client, or both.
Three competing architectures, more or less
Web developers are long familiar with React and the galaxy of similar reactive frameworks like Angular, Vue, and Svelte. For nearly a decade, these have dominated the narrative with their competition and co-inspiration. HTMX and hypermedia-driven applications have championed a return to the true RESTful thin client, alongside alternatives like Hotwire and Unpoly.
We could in a sense see reactivity and hypermedia as two opposing camps. Somewhere in between is the local-first SQL
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It’s quite clear that agentic coding has completely taken over the software development world. Writing code will never be the same. Shoot, it won’t be long before we aren’t writing any code at all because agents can write it better and faster than we humans can. That may already be true today.
But there is more to software development than merely writing code, and those areas—source control, documentation, CI/CD, project management—are ripe for some serious disruption from AI as well. Those areas may well be hit harder than coding itself.
I would imagine that if you were in the business of analyzing data and providing dashboard-level insights into that data, then you would be very worried indeed about what AI is going to do to your value proposition. Much of the SaaS industry is in the business of analyzing existing data, and that is exactly what AI agents can do well. When a simple question can get straight to the heart of what a pricey dashboard provides, then companies have to que
It’s quite clear that agentic coding has completely taken over the software development world. Writing code will never be the same. Shoot, it won’t be long before we aren’t writing any code at all because agents can write it better and faster than we humans can. That may already be true today.
But there is more to software development than merely writing code, and those areas—source control, documentation, CI/CD, project management—are ripe for some serious disruption from AI as well. Those areas may well be hit harder than coding itself.
I would imagine that if you were in the business of analyzing data and providing dashboard-level insights into that data, then you would be very worried indeed about what AI is going to do to your value proposition. Much of the SaaS industry is in the business of analyzing existing data, and that is exactly what AI agents can do well. When a simple question can get straight to the heart of what a pricey dashboard provides, then companies have to que
AI in CI/CD makes ADLC real with smarter, faster pipelines
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For the last two years, many AI buyers have optimized for one thing above all else: speed. Faster pilots. Faster fine-tuning. Faster evaluation cycles. Faster vendor onboarding. But recent developments around AI supply-chain risk are changing that mindset. Once risk enters the data and workflow layer, speed stops being the headline and trust becomes the […]
