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If I built dune.com from scratch again I would do it in Ruby on Rails and not NextJS

Shoot me.

The sanest take. The only reason NextJS will likely dominate this cycle is the sheer amount of (crappy NextJS codebase) data baked into LLMs… until devx-specific implementations arrive.

Or maybe it’s already too late.

There’s also the economic entanglement i highlighted here

Developer tools will be the big winner of the AI wave 🥇 
Simply because the demand for application infrastructure increases as more people build software. And those builders want to differentiate their apps with cutting-edge features, not table-stakes infrastructure.

Things…

Call me old school, but I feel like we’re heading towards needing a million accounts just to run a “Hello, World” in 2025. It feels like such a waste—of energy, time, bandwidth, money—and an exponential increase in dependencies. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? Am I…

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The sanest take. The only reason NextJS will likely dominate this cycle is the sheer amount of (crappy NextJS codebase) data baked into LLMs… until devx-specific implementations arrive.

Or maybe it’s already too late.

There’s also the economic entanglement i highlighted here https://x.com/zakelfassi/status/1878497612011327974?s=46