How I went from getting tired of explaining the same things to AI, to developing a cutting edge solution, to accidentall

There’s a moment every developer hits when “AI-assisted coding” starts feeling less like acceleration and more like friction. For me, that moment came somewhere between deleting yet another useEffect -based data fetch and watching Cursor confidently generate a tailwind.config.js file in a project that absolutely did not need one. That loop kept repeating: Wrong patterns Outdated APIs Defaults that no longer reflect how modern apps are built And the more cutting-edge the stack became— Next.js 16,