React

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MAD Insight
Trojanowski: Long-Horizon Agents Must Use Reasoning for State Management
“Once you start getting to longer horizons where you're beyond the context window or you're getting to context rot, you need to kind of use in sort of brute force your reasoning to build out your environment. Whether that be with sub agents or compaction, we ta…”
Mitch Trojanowski Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 13:45 How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
NVIDIA's El Hallak: OpenClaw is the fastest-growing GitHub project in history
“And OpenClaw became the fastest growing GitHub project on GitHub. Like, you look at Linux, it surpassed Linux, it surpassed React in a few weeks, right?”
Adel El Hallak May 26, 2026 ▶ 8:50 The Right Way To Build AI Agents — With NVIDIA's Adel El Hallak and ServiceNow's Joe Davis
Massad: Visual Basic 6 was better than setting up React and Webpack
“VB six was better than setting up react and web pack.”
Amjad Masad Apr 25, 2026 ▶ 6:07 Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
a16z Assertion Contradicted
Moore: OpenClaw Is the Most-Starred GitHub Repository of All Time
“So now it's, I think, number one GitHub stars of all time. It passed React, it passed Linux.”
Olivia Moore Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 25:00 Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
Schneider: Code-based React templates beat generative AI for rapid ad iteration
“The only thing I've found with, like, Nano Banana is that I sometimes have trouble, like, getting it to stay on brand, and if I'm trying to just, like, figure out the messaging variations that I'm trying to go after, This can be a faster way to do that.”
Cody Schneider Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 19:51 Claude Code & MCPs built my $145K marketing machine
STARTER STORY Disclosure
ChartDB is built using React, Vite, Node.js, and React Flow
“Yeah, so everything is React. We're using React Byte and Node.js, Tailwind, and React Flow for the canvas and all the entities.”
Jonathan Fischner Feb 25, 2026 ▶ 10:49 I Built a Niche App to $9K MRR
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Supported
James: Anima Converts Figma Designs to Claude Code-Ready React Components
“And Anima allows you to convert Figma designs into React components that CloudCode can use to assemble and build your website and essentially get, you know, 95% of the way there with the design.”
James (The Boring Marketer) Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 28:45 How Claude Code Ranked Me FIRST on Google (It's OVER for SEO Agencies)
MAD Assertion Supported
Rauch: Next.js has 1.4 million monthly active developers as top React framework
“Next.js today is the largest web framework in the React ecosystem, 1.4 million monthly active developers.”
Guillermo Rauch Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 5:48 Guillermo Rauch: Why Software Development Will Never Be the Same
Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products
“For us, and the opportunity was if there is maybe five million React developers, which is the sort of the library engine that we use, and there's maybe twenty million JavaScript developers, how many product builders or people with aspirations of building produ…”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 8:22 Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
Rauch: JavaScript and React are the universal lingua franca for web AI
“JavaScript is almost, in my mind has always been almost like the English of programming languages. It's a language that if you learn it, you reach billions of devices. So it's not a coincidence that when you ask ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini to build you a we…”
Guillermo Rauch Apr 13, 2025 ▶ 31:36 Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
TBPN Opinion
Rauch: React is one of Meta's greatest inventions
“React was open source by Meta. I believe that's one of their greatest inventions.”
Guillermo Rauch Mar 26, 2025 ▶ 23:17 Guillermo Rauch on the Next.js Drama, AI-Driven Dev, Vercel’s v0, and the Future of Frontend.
Zhao: Notion rebuilt its codebase because Google Web Components proved too unstable
“Before react wins, there's a competing technology called web component from Google. And it makes sense. Web component feels like a Lego like the building block like, and we're betting on that technology. And then we realized, because it's so new, it's just so …”
Ivan Zhao Mar 6, 2025 ▶ 14:32 Notion's lost years, near collapse during COVID, staying small to move fast, building horizontal
LENNY'S PODCAST Assertion Supported
Mullenweg: WordPress community forced Meta to reverse restrictive React licensing
“I think it was React that they were doing something with the licensing or like a patent restriction on. And the WordPress community actually got Meta to change that and reverse something they were doing to lock it down.”
Matt Mullenweg Mar 2, 2025 ▶ 25:38 Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand
LATENT SPACE Prediction Not checkable as stated
Taylor: Core abstractions for AI agents will emerge over next decade
“And actually, well, I'm sure we'll get into AI, but I sort of feel like we'll go through that evolution with AI agents as well that I feel like we're missing a lot of the core abstractions that I think in 10 years we'll be like, gosh, how'd you make agents bef…”
Bret Taylor Feb 11, 2025 ▶ 14:15 The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
Bret Taylor Says AI Agents Are Currently in Their jQuery Era
“To go use that metaphor, we're sort of in the jQuery era of agents, not the React era”
Bret Taylor Feb 11, 2025 ▶ 21:26 The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Supported
Moura: CrewAI Enables Direct Export of React UI Components
“Or if you want to, you can also export a UI. You can export a react component right from here.”
João Moura Dec 28, 2024 ▶ 18:05 How To Create Ai Agents From Scratch (CrewAI, Zapier, Cursor)
MORE OR LESS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rauch: Google estimates there are four million React developers globally
“For what we do, which is React, which is like the front end, there's four million is the best estimate we get from Google.”
Guillermo Rauch Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 1:28:43 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
MORE OR LESS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rauch: AI will expand React developers from four to fifty million
“There's four million React developers. I can move that from four million to fifty million trivially, because now like you just speak English to that thing. Even if like it doesn't do a hundred percent of the job, it's just like this like infinitely available a…”
Guillermo Rauch Dec 27, 2024 ▶ 1:35:26 #79: The More or Less Holiday Special Pt. 1 (AI Highlights) · More or Less Podcast
MORE OR LESS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rauch: Google estimates there are four million React engineers globally
“For what we do, which is react, which is like the front end. There's four million is the best estimate we get from Google and for creating interfaces, which is very much like a design thing.”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 46:18 #72: Trump's Influencer Strategy Pays Off and the Future of App Building (with Guillermo Rauch!) · More or Less Podcast
MORE OR LESS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rauch: Natural language AI will trivially grow React developers to 50M
“Like there's four million react developers. I can move that from four million to fifty million trivially, because now like you just speak English to that thing. Even if like it doesn't do a hundred percent of the job, it's just like this, like infinitely avail…”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 8, 2024 ▶ 53:01 #72: Trump's Influencer Strategy Pays Off and the Future of App Building (with Guillermo Rauch!) · More or Less Podcast
STARTUP IDEAS Assertion Supported
Robinson: v0 generates production-ready React components using shadcn/ui
“V zero is built on top of this system called shad CN UI that allows you to build your own component library. And the idea with V zero is you should be able to take the code that it generates and it's not throw away code. We're trying to give you real react com…”
Lee Robinson Oct 15, 2024 ▶ 16:07 Vercel's VP of Product on how to use v0 to build your own ideas (Step-by-Step Guide)
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Shunyu Yao built the ReAct prototype before Chain-of-Thought existed
“The prototype I think was around November of 2021. So that's even before like chain of thought or whatever came up.”
Shunyu Yao Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 8:13 Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
Yao: Pairing reasoning with tool use is essential for unfamiliar tools
“And I think the second contribution is this idea of what people call like inner monologue or thinking or reasoning or whatever to be paired with tool use. I think that's still not trivial because if you look at the default function calling or whatever, like th…”
Shunyu Yao Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 11:38 Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
Harrison Chase says ReAct is the most popular agent prompting framework
“I would say like reacts probably like the most popular. I think there's aspects of reflection that Get used. Tree of thought, probably like the least so.”
Harrison Chase Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 25:23 Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting — with Shunyu Yao of OpenAI, Harrison Chase of LangGraph
Howard: Building web apps is much worse now than 15 years ago
“Much to my, you know, horror, the story around creating web applications is much worse now than it was 10 or 15 years ago, in terms of, like, if I say to a data scientist, here's how to create and deploy a web application, You know, either you have to learn Ja…”
Jeremy Howard Aug 17, 2024 ▶ 48:50 Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
Liu: AI agents should use explicit DAG workflows over ReAct loops
“Instead of doing like a react type reasoning loop, I think my belief is that we should be using like workflows, right? If we do this, then we always have a request and a complete workflow. We can fine tune a model that has a better workflow. Whereas it's hard …”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 27:10 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
NO PRIORS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rauch: React, Svelte, and Vue are here to stay as AI tools generate code
“Frameworks like React, Svelte, and Vue, Very clearly seem here to stay, especially React has sort of dominated at the top of the web. So I actually expect to not see a ton of change there and the innovation to switch to like, what are the AI tools that can act…”
Guillermo Rauch Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 27:07 No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
NO PRIORS Insight
Rauch: Copy and paste is always better than a bad abstraction
“There's a great phrase that I love, which is copy and paste is always better than a bad abstraction. And a lot of the worst code bases are the ones that are over abstracted.”
Guillermo Rauch Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 33:05 No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
SeriousCode and Snapify are built with React, Chakra UI, and Next.js
“We love React, use Chakra UI, use Next.js. This is how we are building our products, and we love those frameworks.”
Dominic Sommer Jun 11, 2021 ▶ 13:48 How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product
Ravisankar: 90-day bootcamps promising expert status act as a negative signal
“I mean, there are a lot of them who, there are a set of bootcamps who say, you know what, come here, doesn't matter whether you know how to code or not, I'll help you become a great React developer in 90 days. I mean, it's, that's not how it works, right? And …”
Vivek Ravisankar Mar 30, 2018 ▶ 28:25 Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator

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