Almost all AI programming tools use React as the standard. This single piece of information will have a greater influence on frontend development in the next ten years than any technological indicator ever will. Consider this: When a million engineers ask ChatGPT to “create a todo app for me”, they receive React. When somebody uses v0 or Bolt to bootstrap a SaaS dashboard, they get Next.js. React won by being the default. The Training Data Flywheel LLMs are only as good as the data they’re trained on. The web contains more React examples than any other code. Thus, LLMs create React examples more proficiently than anything else. This makes the circle virtually unbreakable. More React results in more React in the training data to follow. More React in the data trains a better React model. A better React model leads to more people producing React.…